Academic Vocab Flashcards
cite
to mention in support, proof, or confirmation;
relevant
bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand
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
language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.
dialogue
conversation between two or more persons.
tone
The manner in which a writer approaches this theme and subject is the tone.
mood
a state or quality of feeling at a particular time
paraphrase
a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
elaborated
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness:
central idea
The central idea is the central, unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story.
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.”.
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.
elaborate
worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness:
claim
to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due:
to claim an estate by inheritance.
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. 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.
judgement
an act or instance of judging.
theme
a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
precise
definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:
precise directions.
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).
siginificant
important; of consequence.
