7th Grade ELA Unit 1 Literary & Academic Vocabulary Part 1

coherence means

• the state of having logical unity or order, the state of being unified as a whole.

• the traditional myths and story of a culture's collective stories, customs, and beliefs.

• category (often in literature, movies or other arts)

• a story, the art of telling a story; telling a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a myth is

• a result or change caused by something.

• an ancient story told by a cultural or religious group to explain how the world works.

• a description that appeals to one of the five senses of sight, smell, sound, touch, or hearing.

• the ability of a paragraph to make sense from sentence to sentence.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is a folklore

• the traditional myths and story of a culture, a culture's collective stories, customs, and beliefs.

• something that stands for something else.

• category (often in literature, movies, or other arts)

• the way the whole text makes sense from paragraph to paragraph; how a text makes sense in relation to other texts and the world.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A symbol is....

• something (e.g. an image, object, letter, or sign) that stands for something else (e.g. an idea or relationship)

• the state of having logical unity or order; the state o being unified as a whole.

• A description that appeals to one of the five senses of sight, smell, sound, touch, or hearing.

• words that are used to mean something other than their dictionary definitions.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a connotation?

• the implied meaning or feeling of a word

• the dictionary definition of a word

• a story, the art of telling a story.

• the way a whole text makes sense from paragraph to paragraph to paragraph; how a text makes sense in relation to other texts and the world.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

genre is....

• category (often in literature, movies or other arts)

• the state of having logical unity or order the state of being unified as a whole.

• the ability of a paragraph to make sense from sentence to sentence.

• the implied meaning or feeling of a word.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

denotation means

• the dictionary definition of a word

• words that are used to mean something other than their dictionary definitions.

• an ancient story told by a cultural or religious group to explain how the world works.

• a story, the art of telling a story; telling a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is a narrative?

• a story, the art of telling a story; telling a story.

• the way a whole text makes sense from paragraph to paragraph; how a text makes sense in relation to other texts and the world.

• category (often in literature, movies or other arts)

• words that are used to mean something other than their dictionary definitions.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Internal coherence is

• the ability of a paragraph to make sense from sentence to sentence.

• the traditional myths and story of a culture's collective stories, customs, and beliefs.

• category (often in literature, movies or other arts)

• words that are used to mean something other than their dictionary definitions.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

external coherence is

• the way a whole text makes sense from paragraph to paragraph; how a text makes sense in a relation to other texts and the world.

• the dictionary definition of a word.

• a result or change caused by something, to bring about, to cause to happen

• words that are used to mean something other than their dictionary definitions

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D