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Academic Vocab Flashcards

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Assertive tone

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An authoritative tone.

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Analysis

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Detailed Examination, breaking something down into elements

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Inference

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Conclusion made with evidence, and reasoning

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Details

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Specific features of something

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Theme

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The main subject in a writing

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Central Idea

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The main idea of a text, overall summary

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Development

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Disclosing, or unfolding of a plot

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Refined

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Being pure

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Emerges

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Upcoming into view

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Bias

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Favoring something more than the others

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Objective summary

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Factual summary

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Complex Character

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A character with complicated/special features

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Plot

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The main events in a story

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Exposition

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Introduction to a story

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Rising Action

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Conflict

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Climax

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The most important point of a writing

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Falling action

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Follows up the climax, leads to resolution

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Resolution

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The stories plot being solved

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Characterization

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Construction of a character

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Conflict

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A struggle being faced

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Connotation

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cultural/emotional association with a word

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Denotation

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The literal meaning of a word

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Figurative Language

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Literary devices that uses words/phrases for exaggerations

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Simile

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A comparison between one thing and another using like or as.

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Metaphor

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Compares one thing to another unlike thing

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Personification

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Describing a nonhuman thing with human like traits

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated Statements

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Tone

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The attitude the author/narrator shows towards a subject

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Formal vs. informal tone

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Formal tone is like business conversations, informal is la friendly one.

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Context

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the setting or discourse in given writing

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Text structure

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Ways of organizing a text

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description
cause and effect
compare and contrast
problem and solution sequence

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-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

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Suspense/Mystery/tension

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Uncertainty or excitement/something difficult to explain/ feeling of nervousness

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Parallel Plot

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two or more stories incorporated together

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Flashback

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reliving some experience of the past

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Foreshadowing

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Hinting to the future events

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Rhetoric

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Writing that’s meant to persuade

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Allusion

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Indirect reference to something

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Paradox

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something self contradicting, deeper meaning

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Understatement

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Something being talked about as if its not important

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Logical fallacy

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An argument that sounds convincing, but is flawed

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Emotional Appeals

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Persuasion led to emotional response

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Claim

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The main argument

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Counterclaim

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The opposite position of the argument

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Point of View
1st
2nd
3rd limited
3rd omniscient
3rd objective

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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

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Transitions

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Help the story flow , shows the readers there’s a new thought, paragraph or section coming.

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Thesis statement

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summary of the main point

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Formal writing style

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Complex sentence structures, no slang writing

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Objective tone

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Authoritive

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Alliteration

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The same letter at the beginning of words being used over and over

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Assonance

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Repetition of the same vowel sounds

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Convey

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expressing a thought, feeling or idea

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Authors purpose

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authors intent for writing.

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Informative essay (introduction + hook, bodies = topic sentence and research, explanation, conclusion = reframed thesis)

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Fact based writing on a subject

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Narrative Essay (intro, plot, characters, setting, and conflict)

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telling a story

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Argumentative/Persuasive essay (clear thesis statement, well-researched evidence, logical reasoning, counterarguments with refutations, a compelling introduction and conclusion, organized structure)

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Using logic or reason why something is better/worse than the other

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