Academic vocab Flashcards
cite
to mention in support, proof, or confirmation;
context
the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect:
figurative language
1.
language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
tone
Tone, in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. Tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject.
mood
a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
paraphraes
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:
The need for world peace was the theme of the meet
central idea
unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story
judgment
an act or instance of judging.
claim
to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due:
thesis
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
convey
1.
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, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what.
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
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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.
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.
significant
Statistics. of or relating to observations that are unlikely to occur by chance and that therefore indicate a systematic cause.
allusion
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.
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.
imagery
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
