Name: _______________________________________ Date: _____________ ELA Period: 7-1 7-2 7-3 7-5 (circle one)ELA Teacher: Ms. Hines Ms. Hines/Mrs. Miller (circle one) Griffin Middle SchoolELACC7L6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

Vocabulary Term

Definition How can I remember it?

Narrator a _______ who tells the story of events, experiences, etc.

Plot The _______ that make up a story, play, or movie.

Theme The main ______ or overall message of a piece of literature; the overall __________ that the author wants to

get across.

Suspense a state of mental uncertainty or _______________, as in awaiting a decision or outcome.

Characterization The ______________ of the personalities of the characters in the story and the ______ in which an author reveals

their personalities

Flashback an event from the _____ that appears in a narrative to fill in or ___________

Character Motives The reasons why characters ______, feel, or _____ the way they do

Author’s Purpose The author’s ________ for writing To inform

To _________ To entertain

To express an __________

Drama performed play: a serious _____ written for performance on ________, television, or radio

Unit 3 Vocabulary

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Vocabulary Term

Definition How can I remember

it?Memoir

A memoir is a record of ______ written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on _________observation.

Dynamic Character A character who undergoes a _______ because of the ______in the story

Round Character Characters that are described in depth, with ______ details, are well-

rounded characters. A character with _____ personalities both ______ and ________.

Static Character A character whose personality _____________________ in the story.

Flat Character A character that has very ______ information provided ______ him in the story.

Genre A _________ or type of literature. Category in which a work of literature is classified

Inter/InferenceTo form an _______ about something by making a reasonable _____ or

suggestion; to make an educated guess based on what ____ _____ _____ in the text.

Textual Evidence

Using _____, phrases, etc. from a literary work (writing) to _____ your judgment or __________.

Tone The __________ of the author ______ the reader or the ______ matter of a literary work.

Mood The __________ or atmosphere that a writer _______; the way someone ________ about or thinks about something.

Foreshadowing The use of hints or __________ to suggest what will __________ later in the __________ or __________.

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Vocabulary Term

Definition How can I remember

it?Diction The author’s ______________ of words.

Denotation The straightforward ______________________definition .

Connotation The ideas and __________________ associated with the word Positive: a ___________ thing Negative: a ___________ thing

Neutral: _____________ good or bad

Syntax Refers to the arrangement – the _________, grouping and placement of words within a ___________.

Imagery Imagery is a ________ or phrase that __________ how something looks, smells, ______, sounds, or ______.

Image An image is a _____ or phrase that ______ to one of our senses.

Symbolism Symbols are usually _______, places, objects, or _____ that represent things that you _______ physically touch.

Figurative Language

Language that contains or uses _______ of speech.

Alliteration Repetition of the _________ consonant

Onomatopoeia ____________ that are __________.

Simile A way of ___________ something else by comparing it _____ “like” or “as”.

Metaphor A way of describing something by comparing it to something else _______________ using “like” or “as”.

Onomatopoeia Words that are ________.

Personification To ____________ something that is _____ human as if it had human characteristics.

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Vocabulary Term

Definition How can I remember

it?Hyperbole A big _____ or exaggeration

Idioms Expressions made up of _______ that have meanings other than

their literal (truthful) _________________

Analogies Shows a ______________ between _________ things

Point of ViewPoint of view is the ________from which a writer ______ a story.

A writer tells a story through the ____________ of a narrator.

- omniscientthe narrator plays ___________________in the story but can tell us

what all the characters are thinking and feeling

- third-person limited the narrator plays _________________in the story but zooms in on the

thoughts and feelings of ____________ character.

- first personthe narrator is _______________in the story and tells the story using

the first-person pronoun I.

Please study your vocabulary words each night! …Quiz coming soon!!!4