Academic English Vocabulary

Here is a list of all the academic vocabulary that we have covered in class.  Students will be tested on this vocabulary during our benchmark exams as well as the CST exam in May.  The vocabulary is broken into the two categories it will show up on the test.

Responding to Literature/Reading Comprehension

Conflict

Character

Setting

Theme

Mood

Tone

Characterization

Opinion

Thesis

Purpose

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

Idiom

Inference

Writing Strategies/Conventions

Colon

Semi-colon

Comma

Dash

Hyphen

Informative writing

Narrative writing

Persuasive writing

Appositive

Parallel structure

Conjuntion