Unit 1: Life Stories Keywords

A specific detail, such as a fact or expert opinion, that supports a reason.

• setting

• climax

• evidence

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Words used to create pictures in the mind of a reader, rather than words that merely tell what happened.

• showing language

• voice

• irony

• jargon

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Organizational pattern in which details are arranged in the order they occur.

• Chronological Order
• alliteration

• exposition

• dialect

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

A narrative technique that allows authors to introduce past events that have a direct impact on a story's present.

• voice

• metaphor

• flashback

• evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A conversation between characters.

• voice

• dialogue

• conflict

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Narration of a story by one of the characters, using the first-person pronouns I and me.

• autobiography

• alliteration

• claim

• first-person point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Writing that presents facts and information to explain, describe, or persuade; For example, newspaper articles and biographies.

• claim

• metaphor

• nonfiction

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The way a piece of writing sounds.

• voice

• setting

• claim

• sensory detail

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A nonfiction narrative account of the author's own life, using first-person point of view.

• alliteration

• claim

• jargon

• autobiography

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The repetition of consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.

• chronological order

• alliteration

• resolution

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3