Academic vocab Flashcards
context
the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect:
relavent
bearing up with the matter in hand
figurative language
figurative speach metaphores
dialogue
conversation to two or more people
tone
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc
fac
do or make
mood
the way you feel
paraphrase
a reinstatment
central idea
a differing unifying moment
judgement
an act or instance of judgeing
claim
to demand by virtue of right
thesis
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
CONVEY
to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
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
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.
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.
adverb
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
significant
import of secuence
allusion
a passing or casual refrence.
flashback
a device in the narrative of a motion picture
point of view
a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal
imagery
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;
symbolism
the practice of representing things by symbols
