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

relevent

Answer 3

bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent

Question 4

figurative language

Answer 4

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

Question 5

mood

Answer 5

a temporary state of mind or feeling.

Question 6

paraphrase

Answer 6

express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Question 7

elaborate

Answer 7

involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning.

Question 8

judgement

Answer 8

an act or instance of judging.

Question 9

claim

Answer 9

to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due:

Question 10

thesis

Answer 10

a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.

Question 11

convey

Answer 11

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

Question 12

pronoun

Answer 12

any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.

Question 13

connotation

Answer 13

the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”.

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; 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 15

vocab precise

Answer 15

definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:

Question 16

verb

Answer 16

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 17

adverb

Answer 17

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, as very in very nice, much in much more impressive, and tomorrow in She’ll write to you tomorrow. They relate to what they modify by indicating place (I promise to be there), time (Do your homework now!), manner (She sings beautifully), circumstance (He accidentally dropped the glass when the bell rang), degree (I’m very happy to see you), or cause (I draw, although badly).

Question 18

significant

Answer 18

important; of consequence.

Question 19

symbolism

Answer 19

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

Question 20

repetition

Answer 20

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

Question 21

imagery

Answer 21

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

Question 22

point of view

Answer 22

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

Question 23

allusion

Answer 23

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

Question 24

flashback

Answer 24

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.