RL9 Intro to Vocab

What does contrast mean?

• Same

• Difference

• Silly goose

Pattern of Events

• plot

• main message

• hero or villian

character types

• hero or villain

• plot

• main idea

theme

• main idea

• character types

• plot

myth

• fictional story that explains human behavior through the natural world

• focus on deeds instead of gods and goddesses

• highly ethical main character

legend

• a story that focuses on the deeds and acts of human instead of gods and goddesses. usually a moral involved or life lesson.

• ancient story that explains human nature through gods and goddesses

• original stories came from Greece and Rome

To say something is similar to something else

• compare

• contrast

• identify

• provide

To say that something is different from something else

• compare

• contrast

• develop

• excerpt

to cause something to grow bigger or more advanced

• identify

• provide

• develop

• compare

A small part of a longer written work

• excerpt

• genre

• theme

• topic