Unit 1 Academic Vocabulary

Conversation between two or more people

• consequence

• dialogue

• notable

• contradict

What are context clues?

• Clues that help you figure out the context.

• Hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word.

• A piece of evidence or information used in the detection of a crime or solving of a mystery

• A verbal formula giving an indication as to what is to be inserted in a particular space in a crossword or other puzzle.

What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?

• a homonym

• a synonym

• an antonym

• an explanation

Third person omniscient point of view is when the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of ______ characters.

• all
• one
• no
• more than three

The narrator is the

• person telling the story
• main character in the story
• enemy of the main character in the story
• person listening to the story

Exposition

• Setting and background info

• Turning point

• The end

• Events after the climax

Rising Action

• Events leading to the climax

• Events after the climax

• Setting and background

• Point that hooks the reader's attention

The conflict is introduced during the

• Inciting Incident

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Plot

What are the events of a story called?

• Outline

• Climax

• Plot

• Falling action

Where and when does a story take place?

• place

• setting

• denouement

• exposition