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

relevant

Answer 3

needed information

Question 4

figurative language

Answer 4

figures of speech

Question 5

dialouge

Answer 5

to speak in a text

Question 6

mood

Answer 6

Grammar.
a set of categories for which the verb is inflected in many languages, and that is typically used to indicate the syntactic relation of the clause in which the verb occurs to other clauses in the sentence, or the attitude of the speaker toward what he or she is saying, as certainty or uncertainty, wish or command, emphasis or hesitancy.

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; executed with great minuteness:

Question 9

a central idea

Answer 9

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

Question 10

judgment

Answer 10

an act or instance of judging

Question 11

thesis

Answer 11

a statement that is like the main idea of a speech

Question 12

convey

Answer 12

what the author was trying to say in the text

Question 13

connotation

Answer 13

the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning:

Question 14

denotation

Answer 14

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

Question 15

precise

Answer 15

definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed

Question 16

verb

Answer 16

action

Question 17

adverb

Answer 17

any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages,

Question 18

signifagant

Answer 18

important

Question 19

imagery

Answer 19

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

Question 20

repetition

Answer 20

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

Question 21

symbolism

Answer 21

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

Question 22

point of view

Answer 22

a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint:

Question 23

flashback

Answer 23

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.