UNIT 1 VOCABULARY

Springboard ELA grade 6

point of view

the perspective from which a story or poem is told.

synonyms: angle, viewpoint, outlook

first-person point of view

The narrator is a character in the story using first-person pronouns such as “I” and “we” to tell what he or she sees or knows.

third-person point of view

The narrator is someone outside the story using third-person pronouns such as “he”, “she”, or “they” to tell the story.

genre

style of literature

synonyms: type, kind, category

paraphrase

rewording written or spoken text using words that help you clarify and understand the text

synonyms: interpretation, restatement, rephrase

diction

a writer’s or speaker’s word choice

synonyms: phrasing, wording, expression

summarize

creating a statement of the main ideas or essential information in the text

synonyms: review, condense, reduce

stanza

a number of lines of verse forming a separate unit within a poem

synonyms: section, segment, unit

rhyme scheme

the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or in a verse of a poem

synonyms: pattern, arrangement, form

couplet

a pair of rhyming lines

synonyms: stanza, rhyme, verse

antonyms

words that have opposite meanings

synonyms: contrary, reverse, conflicting

synonyms

words that mean the same thing

synonyms: substitutes, replacements, alternatives

semicolon

most commonly used to link two complete thoughts into a complex sentence

synonyms: pause, break, hiatus

narrative

tells a story or describes a sequence of events

synonyms: tale, account, description

characterization

the act of creating characters

synonyms: portrayal, description, representation

setting

time and place where a story takes place

location, scenery, background

conflict

a struggle between characters or opposing forces

synonyms: battle, clash, opposition

external conflict

the character struggles with an outside force

internal conflict

the character struggles with his or her own needs or emotions

sequence of events

set of events that follows one after another

synonyms: order, series, structure

personal narrative

a story based on one’s own life and told in the first person

chronological

ordered by time

synonyms: sequential, consecutive, linear

cause and effect

describes a relationship in which an action or event will produce or cause a certain response or effect in the form of another event

synonyms: interconnection, connection, destiny

dialogue

the words that characters say

synonyms: discussion, conversation, discourse

connotation

the suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word

synonyms: suggested, implication, inference

denotation

the literal meaning of a word

synonyms: accurate, precise, exact