1. 6th grade unit one vocabulary

2. convey
Communicate or make known

3. paraphase
To restate in your own words

4. summarize
To briefly restate the main idea of a piece

5. Words with similar meanings
synonym
Words with similar meanings

6. antonym
Words with opposite meaning

7. sequence
Noun – a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.
Verb – arrange in a particular order

8. Cause and effect
An action that makes something else happen

9. analyze
Discover or reveal something through detailed examination

10. transitions
Words or phrases that connect ideas, details, or events in writing

11. coherence
Clear and orderly presentation of ideas in a paragraph or essay

12. genre
A category or type of literature, such as short story, folktale, poem, novel, play, fiction…

13. Point of view Perspective from which a story is told
First person-character is telling the story and the pronouns = I, Me …
Third person-narrator outside of the story is telling the story and the pronouns = we, they, them …

14. diction
Choice of words

15. narrative
A story or a description of a series of events

16. characterization
The methods a writer uses to develop characters; for example, through description, actions, and dialogue

17. setting
The time and place in which a narrative occurs.

18. conflict
A struggle between opposing forces

19. Internal conflict
Struggle with self

20. External conflict Struggle with outside force Man vs. man
Man vs. society
Man vs. nature

21. Personal narrative
Tells the true story of something that happened to you. Includes a response and reflection on the incident.
(incident, response, reflection)

22. dialogue
Conversation between characters

23. connotation
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word.
Beyond the literal definition
“Yeah, right!” (means no)

24. denotation
The dictionary definition
The exact meaning of a word.

25. metaphor Hank has the heart of a lion. She is a shining star.
To compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts, or feelings to provide a clearer description without using the words like or as.
Hank has the heart of a lion.
She is a shining star.
That desk is a pigpen.

26. Sensory language
Use of details from the five senses to add color and depth to writing. It helps readers visualize.

27. short story
Work of fiction that presents a sequence of events, or plot that deals with a conflict
It is shorter in length than a novel and can be read in one sitting.

28. Theme The central idea, or message, or purpose of a literary work.
This is not one word. The theme needs to be written as a statement.

29. plot
The sequence of related events that make up a story.

30. Figurative language
Language that is not meant to be interpreted literally.

31. simile

32. personification

33. Foreshadowing
Clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot.

34. Science fiction
A genre in which the imaginary elements of the story could be scientifically possible