Academic Vocabulary
I am the lesson or message being relayed within a text.
What is theme statement?
Her plan was as complex as a spider's web.
What is simile?
I help others, provide advice, and I am oftentimes older than the main character.
What is Sage or The Sage?
I am a paragraph in a poem.
What is stanza?
They promised freedom, but kept them enslaved.
What is antithesis?
How a character/narrator views something.
What is perspective?
The moon spoke to the ocean as the waves kept moving.
What is personification?
I am different from others in a story. I don't fit in.
What is a Rebel?
What is Rhyme, End Rhyme, Rhyme Scheme?
I do not require an answer when asked.
What is rhetorical question?
I am a repeated word or phrase throughout a text.
What is repetition?
I am something in a story that has a deeper meaning.
What is symbolism?
There is a conflict between forces in a story.
What is The Battle of Good and Evil?
You do this in poetry to better understand each stanza or line.
What is paraphrase?
I help the reader feel how the character feels by expressing emotions.
What is pathos or pathos appeal?
I exist at the beginning of the story and come before the actions starts.
What is exposition?
My words are very descriptive. I greatly help readers.
What is imagery?
I have a deeper meaning compared to my literal meaning.
What is symbol archetype or symbolism?
I am 2 lines in a poem
What is couplet?
The contrast between a character's expectations and a reality the reader is already aware of.
What is irony?
The process of expanding or maturing
What is developed or develop?
A student got every question correct on the FAST Reading. Everyone is now calling him the modern day Einstein.
What is allusion?
I help determine a character's archetype in a story.
What is character's actions, dialogue, thoughts, characteristics?
What is shift or change?
What is emotions, credibility, and logic or reason