Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Monday, Week 15

This week's theme is: Story Vocab

Word List 15

1. protagonist: The main character in a story.
2. narrator: A person who tells a story.
3. antagonist: An opponent in a conflict.
4. character: traits and qualities distinguishing an individual; a person represented in a book or play.
5. commentary: Explanations of events or text.
6. dialogue: A conversation between two or more people.
7. genre: A category of literary work.

Monday Activities

1. Write the words and definitions in your vocabulary notebook.
2. Create your own sentence using each word and write this in your vocabulary notebook. We have provided samples below to get you started.
3. Use this site, How do you say to help you pronounce words you do not know. Just type the word into the white space and click on Submit. Soon you will hear the word.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

This book features an honorable and tragic protagonist.
The story has a female protagonist who looked totally harmless but could do amazing things.

I was not sure if the narrator was retelling an event that had really happened or was making it up as he went along.
The a narrator seemed to be affected by insanity.

Some writers give the antagonist superhuman powers.
The old woman has become a more potent antagonist than he had imagined.

He declined to comment on his future job.
The actor did not respond to a request for comment.

It is important to continue a dialogue, despite differences.
Her mother wanted to engage in a serious and confidential dialogue with her daughter.

The classic films were neatly organized by genre.
You can search by author, genre, or title.

 
 

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