Literacy Academic Language

written conversation between two or more characters.

• diction

• dialogue

• personification

• flashback

a writer's or speaker's choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences.

• imagery

• hyperbole

• diction

• flashback

a conversation or an event that happened before the beginning of the story.

• flashback

• figurative language

• hyperbole

• personification

a writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events and situations that will occur in a later plot.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• dialogue

• symbol

descriptive words or phrases that create sensory experiences for the reader. It evokes the five senses.

• dialogue

• metaphor

• symbol

• imagery

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that have something in common without using the word "like" or "as."

• imagery

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea.

• symbol

• foreshadowing

• personification

• flashback

Choose three words to describe academic writing:

• Talented, stylish, inspiring

• Decisive, divisive, derisive

• Precise, clear, objective

• Subjective, obscure, vague

Contractions are:

• what happens when you have a baby

• when someone says the opposite to you

• when something is too narrow

• a shortened form of a word

Academic language...

• is a set of vocabulary terms used in schools

• comes as second nature to native speakers, but is difficult for ELLs to acquire

• is the linguistic register that students are expected to use in school subjects