Academic Vocab Flashcards
Assertive tone
An authoritative tone.
Analysis
Detailed Examination, breaking something down into elements
Inference
Conclusion made with evidence, and reasoning
Details
Specific features of something
Theme
The main subject in a writing
Central Idea
The main idea of a text, overall summary
Development
Disclosing, or unfolding of a plot
Refined
Being pure
Emerges
Upcoming into view
Bias
Favoring something more than the others
Objective summary
Factual summary
Complex Character
A character with complicated/special features
Plot
The main events in a story
Exposition
Introduction to a story
Rising Action
Conflict
Climax
The most important point of a writing
Falling action
Follows up the climax, leads to resolution
Resolution
The stories plot being solved
Characterization
Construction of a character
Conflict
A struggle being faced
Connotation
cultural/emotional association with a word
Denotation
The literal meaning of a word
Figurative Language
Literary devices that uses words/phrases for exaggerations
Simile
A comparison between one thing and another using like or as.
Metaphor
Compares one thing to another unlike thing
Personification
Describing a nonhuman thing with human like traits
Hyperbole
Exaggerated Statements
Tone
The attitude the author/narrator shows towards a subject
Formal vs. informal tone
Formal tone is like business conversations, informal is la friendly one.
Context
the setting or discourse in given writing
Text structure
Ways of organizing a text
description
cause and effect
compare and contrast
problem and solution sequence
-describes/explains a topic
-one action effects the other
-showing similarities and differences between something
-showing the different problems, then how they’re solved
-listing events or steps
Suspense/Mystery/tension
Uncertainty or excitement/something difficult to explain/ feeling of nervousness
Parallel Plot
two or more stories incorporated together
Flashback
reliving some experience of the past
Foreshadowing
Hinting to the future events
Rhetoric
Writing that’s meant to persuade
Allusion
Indirect reference to something
Paradox
something self contradicting, deeper meaning
Understatement
Something being talked about as if its not important
Logical fallacy
An argument that sounds convincing, but is flawed
Emotional Appeals
Persuasion led to emotional response
Claim
The main argument
Counterclaim
The opposite position of the argument
Point of View
1st
2nd
3rd limited
3rd omniscient
3rd objective
Perspective of which the story is being told from
- telling from their own perspective
- referring to others
- narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
- narrator knows all thoughts, feelings and actions
-doesn’t show anyone’s thoughts or feelings
Transitions
Help the story flow , shows the readers there’s a new thought, paragraph or section coming.
Thesis statement
summary of the main point
Formal writing style
Complex sentence structures, no slang writing
Objective tone
Authoritive
Alliteration
The same letter at the beginning of words being used over and over
Assonance
Repetition of the same vowel sounds
Convey
expressing a thought, feeling or idea
Authors purpose
authors intent for writing.
Informative essay (introduction + hook, bodies = topic sentence and research, explanation, conclusion = reframed thesis)
Fact based writing on a subject
Narrative Essay (intro, plot, characters, setting, and conflict)
telling a story
Argumentative/Persuasive essay (clear thesis statement, well-researched evidence, logical reasoning, counterarguments with refutations, a compelling introduction and conclusion, organized structure)
Using logic or reason why something is better/worse than the other
