Unit 1 SpringBoard Vocabulary

______________ is the sequence of events that make up a story.  It often unfolds in a linear cause-effect structure: something happens, and then something else happens in response.

• Theme

• Plot

• Sequence

• Foreshadowing

The time a place a story takes place

• Setting

• Character

• Plot

• Theme

Sensory language refers to words that appeal to which 5 senses?

• sight, sound, smell, taste, emotions

• sight, sound, smell, taste, touch

• voice, sound, smell, taste, touch

• voice, sound, smell, taste, emotions

When you use _________ to connect ideas you are helping to create coherence. 

• theme

• coherence

• transitions

• sequence

In an _________       ________, the character struggles with an outside force.

• short story

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• cause-effect

In an _______     _________ , the character struggles with his or her own needs or emotions.

• internal conflict

• external conflict

• short story

• cause-effect

The perspective from which the story is told

• Character

• Point of view

• Transition

• Dialogue

What is first person point of view

• The narrator is a person in the story and uses first person pronouns such as I and we to tell what he or she knows

• A conflict or struggle the character has with his/her own needs or emotions

• The narrator is someone outside the story using third-person pronouns he or she as they tell the story

• When and where the story happens

___________ is the central idea, message, topic, or purpose of a literary work. 

• Coherence

• Simile

• Plot

• Theme

A ___________ compares two unlike things without using the words like or as.  Example: Her music is a trip to the streets of Memphis.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• foreshadowing