MAPS Academic Language Review Open this link to find a list of language vocabulary with links to lessons to help you learn these concepts and skills.

INDEX of Language Arts Lessons and Quizzes

Glossary of Literary Terms

MAPs Vocabulary:  Reading (Organized by RIT Score Range) 

RIT 141-150 folk tale RIT 181-190 historical fiction
abc order index acronym homonym
beginning sound main idea advertise inform
vowel note almanac job announcement
RIT 151-160 nursery rhyme American literature labels
advertisement personal narrative anecdote literature
business letter prefix anthology magazine
ending sound problem aphorism main point
fable sign argue manual
journal suffix autobiography memoir
legend table of contents bibliography moral
list title page book review multisyllabic
opposite word family brochure myth
outline RIT 171-180 caption narrator
rule announcement category news
short story antonym characteristics novel
synonym instructions conclusion one-act play
thank-you note main character context persuade
title make-believe conversation persuasion
RIT 161-170 newspaper description picture book
atlas nonfiction diary poet
bias plot drama policy
biography point of view entertain problem & solution
chapter root word excerpt purpose
compound word schedule fact & opinion recipe
contraction science fiction fiction reference book
cookbook setting foreshadowing reference material
describe syllable glossary reports
dictionary tall tale graphic organizer resolution
fairy tale textbook guide words rhythm
       
       
RIT 181-190 continued RIT 201-210 parable RIT 221-230
rising action alliteration persuasive archetype
satire assonance present tense contradict
science book assumption primary source first person
speaker British literature pun iambic pentameter
stanza characterize quote metric feet
summarize chronological reference omniscient
syllogism conflict research paper paradox
thesaurus consance scene pathetic fallacy
topic coupon secondary source second person
topic sentence debate speech sonnet
Venn diagram exaggeration tale standard English
vocabulary exposition thesis paper stereotype
RIT 191-200 falling action word play supporting details
annotated bibliography field guide world literature symbolism
editorial flashback RIT 211-220 symbolize
footnote headline allusion third person
metaphor instruction appendix viewpoint
middle sound irony characterization RIT 231-240
summary literary device contrast antithesis
word root literary element extended metaphor metonymy
  memorandum guide letters scansion
  narrate homophone synecdoche
  order of events oxymoron  
    resolve  
    suspense  
       
       
       
       
       

 

 

·         gerund phrases

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#gerund (test)

·         adverbial clause

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#adverb_clauses (test)

·         personification

·         http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/personification.html

·         hyperbole

·         http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/hyperbole.htm

·         parallel, non parallel construction

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/parallelism.htm (test)

·         faulty tense change

·         http://english.byu.edu/writingcenter/pdf/faulty-shifts.pdf

·         irony      

·         http://www.delmar.edu/engl/wrtctr/handouts/irony.htm

·         imperative, declarative, interrogative, exclamatory sentences

·         http://205.126.22.50/language/lessons/foursentences.html (test)

·         plural possessives

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm (test)

·         abstract/concrete nouns

·         http://www.geocities.com/pants098/conab.html

·         common/proper  noun

·         (my mother/Mother)

§         http://www.rhlschool.com/eng3n1.htm (test)

·         indefinite pronouns

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

·         simple, compound, complex sentence

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sentences.htm#sentence_types (test)

·         linking verbs

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#linking (test)

·         predicate (contains a verb)

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/objects.htm#predicate

·         auxiliary verbs

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/auxiliary.htm (test)

·         nominative pronoun

·         http://www.grammargoddess.com/pronouns.htm

·         alliteration

·         http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html

·         narration

·         http://www.notesinthemargin.org/glossary.html#n

·         http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/narratology/terms/narration.html

·         exposition

·         http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/#Exposition

·         memoir

·         http://www.uwc.ucf.edu/Writing%20Resources/Handouts/memoir.htm

·         editorial

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorial

·         primary/secondary source

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_source

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_source

·         Point of view

o        http://www.learner.org/exhibits/literature/read/pov2.html

·         Assonance

·         http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/assonance.htm

·         Assumption (definition)

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/assumption

·         Consonance

o         

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/C/consonance.htm

·         Exposition

o        http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/expository.htm

·         Falling action

o        http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/teachers/mschrepferman/Reading/literary_terms_am.htm

·         flashback

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/terms/2terms.html#Flashback

·         Literary Device

o        http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/lit.htm

·         Parable

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/parable

·         Pun

o        http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/puns.htm

·         Thesis

o        http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/thesis.html

·         Antithesis

o        http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/antithesis;_ylt=Ap.t4DaG534x3L89Hyt5RX9wCssF

o        http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html

·         memorandum

o        http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/antithesis;_ylt=Ap.t4DaG534x3L89Hyt5RX9wCssF

·         allusion

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/allusion.html

·         metonymy

o        http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticterms/WhatIsMetonymy.htm

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/metonymy.html

·         synecdoche

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/synecdoche.html

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/synecdoche

·         symbol / symbolism

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/symbol.html

o        http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1997/janfeb/feat3.htm

·         1st, 2nd and 3rd  person

o        http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/person.shtml

·         omniscient

o        http://www.nyu.edu/classes/op/writing/old_pointofview1.htm

·         paradox

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/paradox

·         appendix

o        http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&defl=en&q=define:appendix&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

·         characterization

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/characterization.html

·         homophone

o        http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/homofone.htm

·         oxymoron

o        http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnOxymoron.htm

·         archetype

o        http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/archetypal

·         pathetic fallacy (like personification)

o        http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pathetic%20fallacy

 

·         sonnet

o        http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sonnet.html

·         stereotype

o        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stereotype

·         scansion

o        http://www.stedwards.edu/hum/klawitter/poetics/scansion.html

·         iambic pentameter

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/iambic-pentameter

·         metric feet

o        http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0903237.html

·         extended metaphor

o        http://www.vsg.edu.au/samples/poetry/npsample.htm

·         noun clause

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#noun

·         noun phrase

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#noun

·         clause

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm

·         independent clause and dependent

·         http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#independent

·         editorial

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/editorial

·         expository

o        http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/expository.html

·         types of sentences

o        http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/sntpurps.html

·         interjection

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/interjections.htm

·         narrative

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/personal.htm

·         simple sentence

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/sentences.htm#sentence_types

·         abstract nouns

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/nouns.htm#abstract_nouns

·         passive and active voice

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/passive.htm

·         adjective clause

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#adjective_clauses

·         subordinate clause

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm

·         adjective phrase

o        http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/phrfunc.html

·         adverb clause

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm#adverb_clauses

·         antecedent

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

·         conjunction

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

·         indirect and direct object

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/objects.htm

·         expository essay

o        http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/ExpositoryEssay.html

·         expository paragraph

·         http://www.humboldt.edu/~tdd2/Paragraphing.htm

 

·         infinitive phrase

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#infinitive

·         infinitive

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#infinitive

·         linking verb

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#linking

·         modifier

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/modifiers.htm

·         onomatopoeia

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/onomatopoeia.html

·         parody

o        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody

·         participial phrase

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#participle

·         process essay

o        http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/process.html

·         how to essay

o        http://mwp.cla.umn.edu/anthology/2003/floresdemo.pdf

·         tone

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/tone.htm

·         transition

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/transitions.htm

·         comma splice

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm#splice

·         pronoun antecedent

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns.htm

·         limerick

o        http://volweb.utk.edu/school/bedford/harrisms/limerick.htm

·         paraphrase

o        http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html

·         participial

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/phrases.htm#participle

·         participle

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#participle

·         allegory

o        http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/allegory.html

·         colloquialism

o        http://www.mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/reading/glossary.shtml

·         diction

o        http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/diction.html

·         ellipsis

o        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis#Ellipsis_in_writing

·         epic poem

o        http://www.ehow.com/how_3334_write-epic-poem.html

·         literary response

o        http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson281/model_response.pdf

·         predicate noun (nominative)

o        http://grammar.uoregon.edu/nouns/predicateN.html

·         reflexive pronoun

o        http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns1.htm#reflexive

·         objective pronoun (all types of pronouns)

o        http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0885483.html

·         tragedy

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/tragedy

·         works cited

o        http://www.answers.com/topic/works-cited

o        http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works_cited.htm

·         appositive

o        http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/appositive.htm