Academic vocab

Question 1

cite

Answer 1

to mention in support, proof, or confirmation;

Question 2

context

Answer 2

the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect:

Question 3

figurative language

Answer 3

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

Question 4

tone

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

mood

Answer 5

a state or quality of feeling at a particular time

Question 6

paraphraes

Answer 6

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

Question 7

elaborate

Answer 7

worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness:

Question 8

theme

Answer 8

a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
The need for world peace was the theme of the meet

Question 9

central idea

Answer 9

unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story

Question 10

judgment

Answer 10

an act or instance of judging.

Question 11

claim

Answer 11

to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due:

Question 12

thesis

Answer 12

a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:

Question 13

convey

Answer 13

1.

to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.

Question 14

pronoun

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

connotation

Answer 15

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 16

denotation

Answer 16

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 17

precise

Answer 17

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definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:

Question 18

verb

Answer 18

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 19

adverb

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

significant

Answer 20

Statistics. of or relating to observations that are unlikely to occur by chance and that therefore indicate a systematic cause.

Question 21

allusion

Answer 21

a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.

Question 22

flashback

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

point of view

Answer 23

a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint.

Question 24

imagery

Answer 24

the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.

Question 25

repetition

Answer 25

the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated.

Question 26

symbolism

Answer 26

the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.