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WorksheetsSpringBoard Unit 1 Vocabulary
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What does analyze mean?
make a general statement about something
predict something
separate something into parts and see how the parts are related
guess the meaning of something
What is a narrative?
Non fiction writing that informs the reader
developing a character
A story that describes a sequence of events
What is characterization?
The perspective of a story
A struggle between two characters
a conversation between two or more characters
The act of creating characters using words, actions, appearance, and feelings
What is a conflict?
A conversation between two or more characters.
A struggle between characters or opposing forces
When and where the story takes place
The act of creating characters
What is dialogue?
A conflict between characters or opposing forces
A conversation between people, the words people say, when you see it in a story you will often see "quotation marks."
When and where a story takes place
A disagreement
What is an external conflict
When the character struggles with his or her own needs or emotions
When and where a story takes place
When the character struggles with an outside force
A set of events that follows one after another
What is internal conflict?
When a character struggles with his or her own needs or emotions.
A conversation between two or more people
When a character struggles with an outside force
The act of creating characters
What is a sequence of events?
A conversation between characters in a story
When the character struggles with an outside force
A set of events that follows one after another
A struggle between characters or opposing forces
What is point of view?
A struggle between characters or opposing forces
The perspective from which the story is told
The conflict in the story
When and where a story takes place
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
What is third person point of view?
The narrator is a character in the story using first person pronouns such as I and we to tell what he or she sees and knows
The narrator is someone outside the story using third-person pronouns such as he, she, and they to tell the story
A conflict between characters or opposing forces
What is cause and effect?
When a character struggles with another character or opposing force
When a character struggles with their own needs or emotions
The time and place of the story
A relationship in which an action or event produces a certain response
What is connotation?
The time and place of a story
The literal meaning of a word
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word or phrase
A conversation between two or more characters
What is denotation?
The literal meaning of a word
How someone feels about someone else
A conversation between two or more characters
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associates with a word
Which of these is an example of a metaphor?
Her food is a trip to the best restaurants in France.
His hair is like a field of wheat.
The cats meow is like a screaming toddler.
The door slammed with anger.
Which of these is a simile?
The sunlight danced on the water.
He was angrier than a crocodile with a toothache!
Her mind was a teal trap.
The class was like an endless trip on a roller coaster.
Which of these best describes figurative language?
Language that gives the literal meaning of something.
When a story is told from first person point of view
Language that is used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true
When the narrator is someone outside the story
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
What are transitions in writing?
The time and place of a story
The orderly presentation of ideas
Transition are words that connect ideas to create coherence such as next, finally, or first.
The perspective the story is told in
Which of these is an example of setting?
Do you ever wish you had superpowers?
The garage was worn out by the years. It had no windows. The walls, eaten by termites, strained to support the roof full of holes.
My mom came out of the house and immediately got the world's sappiest look on her face. "Well, hello," she says to Juli.
The next day when I got home from school, I discovered draped on my bedpost a jacket the color of day-old guacamole.
