Academic Vocabulary
Word Parts
Parts of a story
Tone
100
This word is used when the reader looks carefully and pays attention to all parts
What is to analyze
100
-ful in the word, spoonful, is considered this
What is a suffix?
100
This part of the story includes events that lead up to the climax
What is the rising action?
100
Example #1
Father: “We are going on a vacation.”
Son: “That’s great!!!”
What is the tone?
What is cheerful tone?
200
A statement made by the reader based on facts or observations from the text combined with background (what I know)
What is inferences?
200
This prefix means against
What is anti-
200
This is the ending of the story, where the conflicts are solved.
What is the resolution?
200
“Can someone tell me what the heck is going on here?”
What is the tone?
What is aggressive/mad?
300
Information that is proven and taken directly from the text.
What is textual evidence?
300
In the word, misunderstood, the prefix mis- would mean this
What is wrongly or not?
300
The beginning of a story that introduces the characters, conflict, and the setting.
What is the exposition?
300
What tone does this picture display?
What is eerie/scary?
400
The lesson or moral that a text/story reveals to the reader
What is a theme?
400
In the word unacceptable, which part of the word is the base word?
What is accept?
400
Actions and events that occur after the climax
What is falling action?
400
What tone does this picture display? 
What is romantic?
500
The main point that the author is making, what the text is mostly about
What is the central idea?
500
The suffix -less would have this meaning, example speechless
What is without
500
The turning point of the story with the greatest suspense and action.
What is the climax?
500
What tone is be displayed from the poem?
What is reflective?