Final 2 Flashcards
Inanimate
Adj
Not alive, showing no sign of life
Infuse
Fill/soak
Anachronism
Old fashioned
Repercussion
An unwelcome unintended consequence of an event or action
Personal narrative
A type of writing, in which an author tells a true story from their own life
Focuses on just a few events
Metaphors and similes
Are tools, the writer uses to compare
Simile uses the words like or as
Metaphor is not
Summary of a text
- Start with the title of the text in the authors name
- Use the present tense
-Keep it short
-Do not inject your own opinions, ideas or interpretations
-If you must include some of the original text to use, quotation marks
Denotation
Is the literal meaning of the word
Connotation
Refers to the feelings associated with the word
Nuance
Apastrophe
Is a direct address to an inanimate thing or an absent person in capable of responding
Ex. Oh mighty sea spare us your lessons today!
Impalpable
Unable to be felt by touch
Innocuous
Not harmful or offensive
Illusory
Based on allusion; not real
Rhetorical device
Is a language that aims to produce a strong effect on readers or an audience
Migrate
Move from one region or habitat to a another
Modify
Make partial or minor changes to
Requisite
Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations
Reiterate
Say something again, or a number of times typically for emphasis or clarity
Implication
The conclusion that can be drawn from some thing, although it is not, explicitly stated
Rhetorical questions
To develop ideas, build support for her positions, and structure her essay
amnesia
A partial or total loss of memory
Cognitive
The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses
Correspondent
A person employed to report for newspaper broadcasting organization
Covetous
Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else
Dejected
Sad and depressed; dispirited
Facet
One side of some thing many sided
A particular aspect or feature of some thing
Inevitable
Certain to happen unavoidable
Leaden
Dull, heavy, or slow
Of the color of lead; dull grey
Pathological
Involving or caused by a physical or mental disease
Prerequisite
A thing that is required as a prior condition for some thing else to happen or exist
Prodigy
A young person with exceptional qualities or abilities
Rapture
A feeling of intense pleasure or joy
Omniscient narrator
Knows what all of the characters are thinking
Sentence fragment
Spice up previous sentence informal style
Rhetorical questions
Forces audience to think and engage in text
