MAP Review - Academic Vocabulary

Story elements help us understand where we are in a story and what’s happening. Which story element goes with each definition?

• Climax

• The moment of highest tension or turning point...

• Exposition

• Events wind down after the climax -

• Inciting Incident

• Between the inciting incident and climax - Events that increase tension

• Falling Action

• The background information and setting provided at the beginning of a story...

• Rising Action

• The event that starts the main conflict or problem...

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which element of fiction goes with each definition?

• theme

• sequence of events

• conflict

• character or force that works against the protagonist

• antagonist

• struggle between two opposing forces - usually the protagonist and an antagonist

• protagonist

• underlying message

• plot

• the main character - the audience follows this character throughout the plot

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

Which argumentative vocabulary word goes with each definition?

• rebuttal

• opposing opinion

• counterclaim

• a statement that includes the author's claim and reasons

• claim

• a reason that supports the claim

• argument

• clapback to the counterclaim

• thesis

• the author's opinion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

Which transition word/phrase best introduces each argumentative element?

• "Some may say"

• Counterclaim

• "However,"

• Providing Evidence

• "In support of this"

• Rebuttal

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.5.6

Classify the figurative language below.

• Personification

• comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• comparing two things by saying/implying one IS the other

• Alliteration

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

• Simile

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Onomatopoeia

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Match the definitions to the correct parts of speech.

• adjective

• a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

• verb

• person, place, thing, or idea

• pronoun

• replaces the noun with words such as he, she, they

• noun

• describes a noun or pronoun

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

Match the examples from the following to the correct parts of speech: Mrs. Diedrich, my kind teacher, was teaching MAP Review. She thinks I will do a great job on the test.

• noun

• chatting

• pronoun

• she

• verb

• kind

• adjective

• Mrs. Diedrich

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6