academic vocab Flashcards
cite
to metion in support proof or confermanaition
context
the part of written spoken statement that proceed or follow of a specific word or passege usually influencing its meaning and effect
figurative languange
language that contians or uses figures of speech especially metaphors
tone
a mood
mood
a prevailing emotional tone or general attitood
paraphrase
the act or process of restating or rewording
elaborate
adding detial
theme
a subject of discourse discusion meditation or cometiton topic
central idea
in a piece of writting is that the point that the author wants you to remember the most
claim
to demand by or as by vitrue as a right
thesis
the propasition stated or put forward for consideration
convey
to transport
pronoun
any member of a small class words found in many launguages that are used as replacements or subsatute for nouns and noun phrases.
connotation
something sugested or implied by a word or thing rather being exspicity named or described
denotation
something that donates ;mark; symbol