academic vocab

Question 1

cite

Answer 1

to mention in support, proof, or confirmation

Question 2

context

Answer 2

the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.

Question 3

relvent

Answer 3

bering upon or conected with the matter at hand

Question 4

figeritive language

Answer 4

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

Question 5

dialouge

Answer 5

conversation between two or more persons.

Question 6

tone

Answer 6

the adtude of a wrighter towerda subject of an adiance

Question 7

mood

Answer 7

a state or quality of feeling at a particular time

Question 8

paraphase

Answer 8

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

Question 9

elabrorate

Answer 9

to work out carefully or minutely; develop to perfection.

Synonyms: refine, improve.

Question 10

theme

Answer 10

a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art.

Question 11

cential idea

Answer 11

unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story. The central idea can be best described as the dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.

Question 12

jujmeant

Answer 12

forming an inpinon

Question 13

claim

Answer 13

supporting a fact

Question 14

thesis

Answer 14

a subject for a composition or essay.

Question 15

convey

Answer 15

pass the title to.

Question 16

pronoun

Answer 16

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 17

connotation

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

denotatiton

Answer 18

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 19

precise

Answer 19

being just that and no other:

the precise dress she had wanted.

Question 20

verb

Answer 20

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 21

adverb

Answer 21

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).
See also sentence adverb.

Question 22

sinifacant

Answer 22

having or expressing a meaning; indicative; suggestive:
a significant wink.
Statistics. of or relating to observations that are unlikely to occur by chance and that therefore indicate a systematic cause.

Question 23

allusion, flashback, point of view, imagery, repetition, and symbolism

Answer 23

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.
(in fictional writing) the narrator’s position in relation to the story being told.
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.