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SLO Cumulative Vocabulary PART 1 and PART 2

  1. Adjective – a part of speech that describes a noun or pronoun

  1. Antonym – a word that means the opposite of another word

  1. Author’s purpose – writing for a specific purpose or reason, such as to express a writer’s thoughts, to tell a story, to inform, to explain, or to persuade

  1. Character traits – qualities that describe a character, expressed through words, actions, thoughts, or appearance

  1. Climax – the greatest point of interest in the story and when the conflict is solved

  1. Conflict – the main problem in a story, or the struggle between two opposing forces

  1. Exposition – the beginningof the story when the setting and characters are introduced

  1. Fact – something that actually exists; reality or truth

  1. Falling action – part of plot when the events lead to the conclusion

  1. Fiction – writing that tells an imaginary story

  1. First person point of view – the main character tells the story using the words I, me, my, we

  1. Genre – the kind or type of writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography)

  1. Imagery – the use of words and phrases that appeals to a reader’s five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell)

  1. Inference – a logical guess based on prior knowledge and details from the text

  1. Main character – the character in a story who deals with the conflict (problem)

  1. Main idea – the important information that tells about the overall idea of a story

  1. Narrative writing – writing that tells a story

  1. Narrator – a voice that tells the story

  1. Nonfiction – writing that tells about real people, places, and events

  1. Noun – a part of speech that identifies a person, place, or thing

  1. Opinion – a belief or judgment that is a personal view

  1. Plot – the series of eventsin a story

  1. Prediction – to guess what will happen next in a story

  1. Prefix – a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change the meaning

  1. Resolution – the ending or conclusion of a story

  1. Rising action – the part of the story when the conflict (problem) is introduced

  1. Root word – a word that does not have a prefix or a suffix, and give the word its meaning

  1. Run-on sentence – two or more sentences written as one sentence

  1. Sentence fragment – an incomplete sentence

  1. Sequence – the specific order of events (first, second, third, last)

  1. Setting – the time and place of the action of a story (when and where)

  1. Short story – a story that centers on a single idea and can be read in one sitting

  1. Suffix – a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change the word’s meaning

  1. Summarizing – briefly retelling the main ideas in a piece of writing

  1. Synonym – a word with the same or similar meaning of another word (antonym means opposite)

  1. Theme – a message about life or human nature that a writer wants readers to understand

  1. Thesaurus – a reference books that lists words with similar meanings (synonyms)

  1. Third person point of view – the narrator is not a character and uses words like he, she, they

  1. Venn diagram – a graphic organizer used to compare and contrast two things (compare means to find similarities and contrast means to find differences)

  1. Verb – a part of speech that shows action, or state of being (is, are, was, were, am, be, been)