Academic Vocabulary
What are formal words and language that are used in school? It usually does not occur in informal oral conversation.
What is academic vocabulary
What is a context?
What is a context refers to the words and sentences around an unfamiliar word.
Context often provides clues about the word's meaning.
Poems are divided into these just as stories are divided into paragraphs.
What is stanza.
A three lined stanza with or without a rhyme scheme.
What is a tercet.
In a text, the _________ ____________ is the author's most important message.
What is the central idea.
Describe reference materials.
What are they?
Reference materials are sources that provide information, such as magazine, book, television, and the internet.
Reference materials contain words and descriptions that can expand your academic vocabulary.
What is the base of a word?
What is the root.
This is the pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line.
What is the poem's thyme scheme.
A ________________________ consists of four lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a quatrain.
What is denotation is the literal meaning of a word and the connotation is the feeling or the word.
Describe a glossary.
A glossary can help you use content-specific vocabulary in academic discussions.
A group of letters added to the beginning or the end of a word.
What is an affix.
Affixes add specific meaning to the root words they are attached to.
This is the number of syllables in a line of poetry and the stressed and unstressed emphasis on those syllables.
What is the meter.
A _____________________ poem tells a story. The story is shown through the poem's setting, characters, and plot.
What is a narrative.
The ____________________ of a text is the person who is telling the story.
What is the narrator.
What is a dictionary?
What is, a dictionary is a book that lists in alphabetical order words and their meaning. The dictionary ensures that you are using the correct definition in the correct context when you are writing and speaking.
An affix that is added to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix.
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables create the _______________________ of the poem, or the beat.
What is the rhythm.
If a poem does not follow any specific rhyme or rhyme scheme, it is called_____________________.
What is free verse.
The ___________ ____________ is narration from the point of view of a main character who is part of the events in a story. The narrator uses first-person words such as I, we, me and us to tell the story.
What is first person
What is a thesaurus?
What is, a thesaurus is a book similar to a dictionary. It lists words according to their similar meaning.
A thesaurus gives you varied words with similar meanings to help make your writing and speaking more academic and interesting.
An affix that is added to the end of a word.
What is a suffix.
A ______________________ is two lines in a row with ending words that rhythm of the poem, or its beat.
A lyric poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A _______________________ is a form of poetry. It has 14 lines and contains 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
What is a sonnet
To uncover themes in a story and determine whether they are connected, you must _______________ or carefully study the text.
What is analyze.