SpringBoard English 7 Unit 1 Vocabulary

a category or type of literature such as mystery, fiction, romance, sci-fi...

• stanza

• genre

• narrative

• coherence

a group of lines in a poem, like a "poem paragraph"

• stanza

• genre

• poem

• myth

language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification...)

• characterization

• narrative

• sensory details

• figurative language

a story about something that happened

• narrative

• stanza

• effective

• genre

how a writer develops characters, through dialogue, description, and actions

• coherence

• genre

• characterization

• connotation

language that appeals to one or more of the five senses

• sensory details

• figurative language

• external coherence

• symbolism

the way one thing of event influences another; consequence

• symbol

• symbolism

• effect

• effective

something that is successful in producing a desired result

• coherence

• myth

• narrative

• effective

the clear presentation of ideas in a piece of writing

• genre

• stanza

• symbolism

• coherence

the clear presentation of ideas within a single paragraph

• external coherence

• internal coherence

• figurative language

• sensory details