Academic vocab

Question 1

cite

Answer 1

to mention in support, proof, or confirmation

Question 2

context

Answer 2

the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular events situation

Question 3

figurative language

Answer 3

language that contains or uses figures of speech

Question 4

dialogue

Answer 4

the conversation between characters in a novel,drama,ect

Question 5

tone

Answer 5

.vocal sound; that made by vibrating muscular bands in the larynx.

Question 6

mood

Answer 6

a distinctive emotional quality or character.

Question 7

paraphrase

Answer 7

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

Question 8

elaborate

Answer 8

to add details

Question 9

theme

Answer 9

a subject of discourse,discussion,meditation,or composition.

Question 10

central idea

Answer 10

dominant impression or the universal, generic truth found in the story.

Question 11

judgement

Answer 11

an act or instance of judging

Question 12

claim

Answer 12

to assert and demand the recognition of (a right ,title ,possession.)

Question 13

thesis

Answer 13

a subject for a composition or a essay.

Question 14

convey

Answer 14

to communicate ;impart ; make known

Question 15

pronoun

Answer 15

many languages that are used as replacement or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases

Question 16

connotation

Answer 16

something suggested or implied by a word or thing

Question 17

deotation

Answer 17

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 18

precise

Answer 18

being exactly that and neither more nor less:

Question 19

noun

Answer 19

Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier

Question 20

verb

Answer 20

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 21

adjective

Answer 21

Grammar. any member of a class of words that modify nouns and pronouns, primarily by describing

Question 22

adverb

Answer 22

descibires a verb

Question 23

significant

Answer 23

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