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Academic Vocabulary for Collection 4
These are the terms you should know as you read and analyze the selections in this collection.Fiction A story that is made up instead of being true. The term fiction usually refers to short stories and novels. Fiction can take many forms, including adventure, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and historical fiction.
Novel A long fictional story. Novels usually have complex plots and deal with more than one theme. It is usually more than one hundred pages long.
Novella A story that is shorter than a novel but longer than a short story. It is usually between twenty and one hundred pages long.
Short Story A story that is much shorter than a novel. It is usually between five and twenty pages long.
Myth A story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and superheroes. Origin myths, or creation myths, explain how something in the world began or was created.
Fable A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to succeed in life.
Legend A story that has been handed down from one generation to the next. It is usually based on some fact from history.
Folk Tale A story with no known author, originally passed down from one generation to another by word of mouth. The main characters of many folk tales are tricksters. One type of folk tale is called a fairy tale.Dialect p. 628
Folklore- check c.j notes
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Academic Vocabulary for Collection 7
These are the terms you should know
as you read and analyze the poems in this collection.
Free Verse Poetry that does not have a regular meter and rhyme scheme. Through use of free verse, poets strive to capture the natural rhythms of ordinary speech.Rhyme The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them. School and tool rhyme, as do handle and candle. The repeated sounds sometimes occur at the ends of lines and sometimes within a line of a poem.
End Rhyme Rhyme that comes at the end of lines. Example:“If you give a boy a horn / He will blow it night and morn. . . .”
Internal Rhyme Rhyme that occurs within a line. Example:
“‘Leave me alone,’ said the rock to the stone / ‘Or trouble will follow you surely. . . .’”Rhyme Scheme The pattern of rhyming sounds at the ends of lines in a poem.
Meter A regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables that gives poetry its beat. Scanning Analyzing lines of poetry for accented and unaccented
syllables to figure out the meter.Refrain A word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem or song, usually at the end of a stanza.
Repetition The repeated use of a word, phrase, sound, or pattern.
Alliteration, rhyme, and refrain are all forms of repetition.Alliteration The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Example: “The barber was as
busy as a bee.”Onomatopoeia The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. Examples include hoot and splat.
