1st 9 Weeks Vocabulary Terms-Answer Key
1. Genre: different categories of literature such as historical
fiction, biography, or science fiction
2. Fiction: a made-up story: short story, novel, folk tales
3. Short Story: a brief fictional story told in ordinary language
4. Folk Literature: short fictional pieces including tales, myths,
legends, and fables
5. Novel: an extended work of fictional literature
6. Drama: a story written to be performed by actors
7. Narrative Nonfiction: true works of literature including
biographies, autobiographies, and personal essays
8. Biography: a narrative piece by one person (or group) about
another person
9. Autobiography: a narrative that tells the life story of the
author
10. Personal Essay: a short piece of writing about one’s personal
experiences and opinions
11. Character Trait: what a character, says, thinks, does, and how
they respond to other characters
12. Plot: sequence of events that support the central conflict and
resolution in a story
13. Sequence: the order of events in a story
14. Setting: when and where a story takes place (time, place, and
duration)
15. Conflict: a struggle or problem between opposing forces; a
character can have internal or internal conflicts
16. Internal Conflict: a conflict that takes place within a character
(when a character struggles to make a tough decision)
17. External Conflict: a conflict that takes place between the
character and an outside force like another character or
nature
18. Resolution: the solution to the conflict or problem
19. Theme: the central idea or purpose in a story
20. Main Idea: the central topic of the text; what the text is mainly
about
21. Supporting Details: information that explain or describe the
main idea
22. Paraphrase: rewriting something into your own words
23. Summarize: to shorten a passage without changing the
meaning
24. Infer: to reason from information provided; reading between
the lines
25. Conclude: using what you’ve read to reach a logical judgment
or conclusion
26. Voice: the author’s personality revealed in the writing
27. Tone: word choices that express the author’s attitude toward
the subject of the writing
28. Prewriting: gathering and organizing details before writing a
paper (brainstorming, webbing, clustering, 4-square, etc)
42. Dictionary: used to find the meanings, pronunciations, origins,
and parts of speech of words
29. Drafting: getting ideas down on paper in a rough format
43. Thesaurus: used to find synonyms and antonyms of words
30. Revising: correcting any major errors and correcting the
44. Glossary: found in the rear of a textbook, used to find
writing’s form and content
31. Proofreading: polishing the writing by correcting errors in
grammar, spelling, and mechanics
32. Publishing: writing a final copy of the work after all corrections
have been made
33. Dialogue: the words spoken by characters in a book, a film, or
a play, or a section of a work that contains spoken words
definitions of particular words within the book
45. Online Sources: websites and resources on the Internet used
to find information
46. Context Clues: clues such as pictures, definitions, phrases, and
headings in the text used to gain meaning and understanding
of unfamiliar words
47. Multiple Meanings: words that have more than one meaning
34. Double Negatives:
48. Noun: a word that names a person, place, thing, or idea
35. Synonyms: words that have similar meanings (happy-glad)
49. Verb: a word used to show action or to indicate a state or
36. Antonyms: words that have opposite meanings (open-close)
37. Origin: the language where a word came from
38. Prefix: an affix added to the front of a word to change the
meaning of the word (add “re” to do to create redo)
39. Suffix: an affix added to the end of a word to change the
meaning of that word (add “ment” to entertain to create
entertainment)
40. Root: the base of a word where prefixes and suffixes are
added
41. Cognates: words in two languages that share similar meaning,
spelling, and pronunciation
condition
50. Subject: the word or group of words that tells whom or what
the sentence is about
1st 9 Weeks Vocabulary Terms
14. __________________: when and where a story takes place (time,
place, and duration)
1. __________________: different categories of literature such as
historical fiction, biography, or science fiction
2. __________________: a made-up story: short story, novel, folk
tales
3. ____________________________________: a brief fictional story
told in ordinary language
4. ____________________________________: short fictional pieces
including tales, myths, legends, and fables
5. __________________: an extended work of fictional literature
6. __________________: a story written to be performed by actors
7. ____________________________________: true works of
literature including biographies, autobiographies, and personal
essays
8. __________________: a narrative piece by one person (or group)
about another person
9. __________________: a narrative that tells the life story of the
author
10. ____________________________________: a short piece of writing
about one’s personal experiences and opinions
11. ____________________________________: what a character, says,
thinks, does, and how they respond to other characters
12. __________________: sequence of events that support the central
conflict and resolution in a story
13. __________________: the order of events in a story
15. __________________: a struggle or problem between opposing
forces; a character can have internal or internal conflicts
16. ____________________________________: a conflict that takes
place within a character (when a character struggles to make a
tough decision)
17. ____________________________________: a conflict that takes
place between the character and an outside force like another
character or nature
18. __________________: the solution to the conflict or problem
19. __________________: the central idea or purpose in a story
20. ____________________________________: the central topic of the
text; what the text is mainly about
21. ____________________________________: information that
explain or describe the main idea
22. __________________: rewriting something into your own words
23. __________________: to shorten a passage without changing the
meaning
24. __________________: to reason from information provided;
reading between the lines
25. __________________: using what you’ve read to reach a logical
judgment or conclusion
26. __________________: the author’s personality revealed in the
writing
27. __________________: word choices that express the author’s
attitude toward the subject of the writing
28. __________________: gathering and organizing details before
writing a paper (brainstorm, web, cluster, 4-square, etc.)
29. __________________: getting ideas down on paper in a rough
format
30. __________________: correcting any major errors and correcting
the writing’s form and content
31. __________________: polishing the writing by correcting errors in
grammar, spelling, and mechanics
32. __________________: writing a final copy of the work after all
corrections have been made
33. __________________: the words spoken by characters in a book, a
film, or a play, or a section of a work that contains spoken words
34. ____________________________________: occurs when you use
two negative words in the same clause
35. __________________: words that have similar meanings (happyglad)
36. __________________: words that have opposite meanings (openclose)
37. __________________: the language where a word came from
38. __________________: an affix added to the front of a word to
change the meaning of the word (add “re” to do to create redo)
39. __________________: an affix added to the end of a word to
change the meaning of that word (add “ment” to entertain to create
entertainment)
40. __________________: the base of a word where prefixes and
suffixes are added
41. __________________: words in two languages that share similar
meaning, spelling, and pronunciation
42. __________________: used to find the meanings, pronunciations,
origins, and parts of speech of words
43. __________________: used to find synonyms and antonyms of
words
44. __________________: found in the rear of a textbook, used to find
definitions of particular words within the book
45. ____________________________________: websites and
resources on the Internet used to find information
46. ____________________________________: clues such as pictures,
definitions, phrases, and headings in the text used to gain meaning
and understanding of unfamiliar words
47. ____________________________________: words that have more
than one meaning
48. __________________: a word that names a person, place, thing, or
idea
49. __________________: a word used to show action or to indicate a
state or condition
50. __________________: the word or group of words that tells whom
or what the sentence is about