ELA, Literary Text Academic Vocabulary

supporting information a writer uses to support or prove a claim; information that helps readers understand elements of the story

• dialogue
• evidence
• inference
• style

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a brief story that teaches a moral or practical lesson about life; example: The Tortoise and the Hare or The Ant and the Grasshopper

• myth
• poetry
• drama
• fable

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

a term for performances in which actors impersonate the actions and speech of fictional characters; when reading these, there will be stage directions and speaking cues

• myth
• poetry
• drama
• fable

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

a traditional story accepted as history which serves to explain the worldview of a people, usually in supernatural or imaginative terms; Example: How Prometheus brought the world fire

• myth
• poetry
• drama
• fable

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a short story from oral tradition that reflects the beliefs of a culture

• fiction
• poetry
• drama
• folktale

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

imaginative literary works representing invented rather than actual persons, places, and/or events

• fiction
• nonfiction
• informational texts
• newspaper articles

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

spoken exchanges between two characters in a literary work, usually between two or more speakers

• dialect
• soliloquy
• aside
• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a type of figurative language; a phrase or expression that differs from the literal meaning of words.
Example: It's raining cats and dogs;
He let the cat out of the bag
*Can be confusing for people who don't speak the language

• dialect
• simile
• oxymoron
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

the character or person who tells the story in a given narrative

• author
• narrator
• protagonist
• antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

this occurs when a narrative work has multiple story lines going on at the same time; usually one follows the main character and the other follows a lesser character

• subplot
• regular plot
• parallel plot
• perpendicular plot

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D