Science Fiction Vocabulary

Science Fiction

• similar to autobiography but usually focuses on specific memories, emotions, lessons learned rather than a history of one's life

• a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Conflict

• the perspective from which a story is told

• the problems and struggles characters face in a literary work

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Theme

• a central message or lesson about life

• the perspective from which a story is told

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Utopia

• an imperfect place or state where everyone does not live in harmony

• an ideal and perfect place or state where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best

Dystopia

• an ideal society that becomes intolerable

• an imperfect place or state where everyone does not live in harmony

Imaginary

• existing only in the imagination

• something that exists and is real

Personification

• a central message or lesson about life

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Epiphany

• A sudden realization

• existing only in the imagination

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Transformation

• A thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance

• a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Suspense

• conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie

• a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C