Academic Vocabulary 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.
Figurative Language
language that contains or uses figures of speech.
Dialouge
conversation between two or more persons.
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.
Morph
an individual of one particular form, as a worker ant, in a species that occurs in two or more forms.
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 forming of an opinion, estimate, notion, or conclusion, as from circumstances.
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
to carry, bring, or take from one place to another;
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.
Connotation
something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described.
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.
Precise
definitely or strictly stated.
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.
Significant
important; of consequence.
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
the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator’s outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters.
Imagery
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
