academic vocab Flashcards
contex
the parts 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.
Tone
the mood of a story overall feeling
mood
a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude
paraphrase
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:
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.
judgement
the ability to judge, make a decision, or form an opinion objectively, authoritatively, and wisely, especially in matters affecting action; good sense; discretion:
claim
to assert or maintain as a fact:
thesis
a subject for a composition or essay.
convey
to communicate; impart; make known
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.
connotation
the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary 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
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. 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
having or expressing a meaning; indicative; suggestive:
repetition
the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
imagery
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively:
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:
symbolism
the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
allusion
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication:
