Springboard Unit 1 Vocabulary

identifiable characteristics or qualities (the way a person acts)

To name your resource.

a brief statement about the main idea of a written text

the literal or primary meaning of the word

giving objects or abstract ideas human-like characteristics

time and place

an educated guess/reasonable guess or prediction

the way a writer develops a character

an individual piece of support

Explaining your thinking in your own words.

a group of related things arranged in a specific order

a specific event in a story

Examples from the story that prove your thinking.

An educated/reasonable guess

elaboration using sight, sound, touch, smell, taste

sequence of events that make up the story

the solution to the problem

written words

a person or animal in a literary piece

life lesson, central idea

comparison between two unlike things without using like or as

The main idea or the most important thoughts of a text

an event or group of events occurring as part of an incident

to break apart and study

the problem in the story

a category or type of literature

The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word

Something fully and clearly expressed. No guessing necessary.

comparing two things using like or as

a story based on one's own life and told in 1st person

a writer's or speaker's choice of words