Academic Vocab

Question 1

cite

Answer 1

to mention in support, proof, or confirmation;

Question 2

context

Answer 2

the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect

Question 3

figurative language

Answer 3

language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.

Question 4

dialogue

Answer 4

conversation between two or more persons.

Question 5

tone

Answer 5

an accent peculiar to a person, people, locality, etc., or a characteristic mode of sounding words in speech.

Question 6

mood

Answer 6

a state or quality of feeling at a particular time

Question 7

paraphrase

Answer 7

a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.

Question 8

elaborate

Answer 8

worked out with great care and nicety of detail

Question 9

theme

Answer 9

a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition

Question 10

central idea

Answer 10

unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story

Question 11

judgement

Answer 11

an act or an instance of judging

Question 12

claim

Answer 12

to assert or maintain as a fact

Question 13

thesis

Answer 13

a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections

Question 14

convey

Answer 14

to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport

Question 15

connotation

Answer 15

something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described

Question 16

denotation

Answer 16

the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.

Question 17

precise

Answer 17

definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed

Question 18

verb

Answer 18

any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.

Question 19

adverb

Answer 19

any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages, as Latin and English, as modifiers of adjectives, other adverbs, or adverbial phrases

Question 20

protagonist

Answer 20

the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work

Question 21

antagonist

Answer 21

a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary

Question 22

significant

Answer 22

important; of consequence

Question 23

repetition

Answer 23

the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.

Question 24

imagery

Answer 24

the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively

Question 25

flashback

Answer 25

a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work

Question 26

point-of-view

Answer 26

a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint

Question 27

symbolism

Answer 27

the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character

Question 28

allusion

Answer 28

a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication