Academic Vocab Flashcards
Cite
to mention in support, proof, or confirmation
Context
the parts of a piece of writing, speech, etc, that precede and follow a word or passage and contribute to its full meaning
Relevant
Connected with the matter in hand
figurative language
language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
mood
a frame of mind disposed or receptive, as to some activity or thing:
paraphase
a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
elaborate
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness
theme
a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
central idea
The central idea is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story.
Judgement
an act or instance of judging.
claim
to assert and demand the recognition of (a right, title, possession,
thesis
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
pronoun
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.
connotation
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.”.
the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning.
denotation
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.
precise
definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:
verb
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./action
adverb
a word that adds to verbs
significant
Statistics. of or relating to observations that are unlikely to occur by chance and that therefore indicate a systematic cause.
noun
allusion
the act of alluding; the making of a casual or indirect reference to something:
flashback
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.
Point of view
a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint:
imaginary
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively:
repetition
the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
symbolism
the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
Ment
Condition, process, agent, means or place of action
tive
is like or pertaining to
itive
is relating to or serving to
ness
refers to a headland or promontory
ity
“state of” or “quality of
ence
the act of
