Week 12 Flashcards
College Application Essays
The main character in a story. He/she is often a hero but sometimes is not. He/she can also be the story’s narrator.
protagonist
A character who stands in the way of the protagonist’s movement in the story. Often, this is a villain, but it does not have to be.
antagonist
A technique in which an author interrupts present events with a look at past events.
flashback
The array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in addition to its dictionary definition; a word’s implied meaning (as opposed to its literal, dictionary meaning); or the image a word evokes or suggests, particularly when that image isn’t explicitly part of the word’s definition.
Examples:
Instead of saying he’d been “fired,” which has the ~~~ that he’d performed his job poorly, he told us he’d been “let go.”
To communicate the size of my textbook, I described it as a “tome” because of the word’s ~~~.
Instead of advertising that “children are welcome,” the restaurant describes itself as “family friendly” because of the phrase’s warm ~~~.
While “clique” and “group” mean the same thing, “clique” has a negative ~~~ because it implies an exclusivity that “group” doesn’t.
(Definition retrieved and lightly modified from grammarly.com)
connotation
The literal meaning, or “dictionary definition,” of a word, especially in contrast to its connotation, which is the array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in addition to its dictionary definition. The words “house” and “home,” for example, have the same literal meaning—a building where people live—but the word “home” has a connotation of warmth and family, while the word “house” does not. A word’s ~~~ does not include any of the subjective or emotional associations that are part of that word’s connotation.
Some additional key details about ~~~:
Words may have an array of connotations. “Wall Street,” for example, connotes wealth, business, greed, and financial power, but it only literally means a street in the Financial District of Manhattan where many bankers work.
Two or more words can all have the same ~~~. The words “car” and “automobile” denote the same four-wheeled method of transportation.
Words that have multiple definitions also have multiple ~~~s.
denotation
Language that uses words in ways that deviate from their literal interpretation to achieve a more complex or powerful effect, especially in ways that play with the meaning of words. Examples (usually called ““figures of speech””) include metaphor, simile, oxymoron, hyperbole, personification, idiom, alliteration, assonance, and more.
(Definition retrieved and lightly modified from litcharts.com)
figurative language
(adjective) twisted out of shape
Example from text: “I might learn their secrets, but my body was so ~~~ and aching that soon I might never walk again.”
Additional example sentence: “My daughters would then walk into the room and begin to weep, their little faces ~~~ with grief.”
contorted
(adjective) disarranged and untidy; tousled; rumpled said of hair, clothing, etc.
Example from text: “My dad races into the building, completely ~~~.”
If you describe someone’s hair, clothes, or appearance as ~~~, you mean that it is very untidy.
She arrived flushed and ~~~.
disheveled
(adjective) a. the ability to bounce or spring back into shape, position, etc.
b. the ability to recover strength, spirits, good humor, etc. quickly; buoyancy
Sentence from text: “I become more colorful by embracing my imperfections and gaining ~~~.”
Additional example sentence: “He showed great courage and ~~~ in fighting back from a losing position to win the game.”
resilience
(adjective) overflowing with enthusiasm, high spirits, etc.; exuberant
If you describe someone as ~~~, you mean that they are lively and full of enthusiasm or excitement about something.
Example sentence: “She had worked so hard to get the job; she was ~~~ after receiving the offer.”
ebullient
protagonist
The main character in a story. He/she is often a hero but sometimes is not. He/she can also be the story’s narrator.
antagonist
A character who stands in the way of the protagonist’s movement in the story. Often, this is a villain, but it does not have to be.
flashback
A technique in which an author interrupts present events with a look at past events.
connotation
The array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in addition to its dictionary definition; a word’s implied meaning (as opposed to its literal, dictionary meaning); or the image a word evokes or suggests, particularly when that image isn’t explicitly part of the word’s definition.
Examples:
Instead of saying he’d been “fired,” which has the ~~~ that he’d performed his job poorly, he told us he’d been “let go.”
To communicate the size of my textbook, I described it as a “tome” because of the word’s ~~~.
Instead of advertising that “children are welcome,” the restaurant describes itself as “family friendly” because of the phrase’s warm ~~~.
While “clique” and “group” mean the same thing, “clique” has a negative ~~~ because it implies an exclusivity that “group” doesn’t.
(Definition retrieved and lightly modified from grammarly.com)
denotation
The literal meaning, or “dictionary definition,” of a word, especially in contrast to its connotation, which is the array of emotions and ideas suggested by a word in addition to its dictionary definition. The words “house” and “home,” for example, have the same literal meaning—a building where people live—but the word “home” has a connotation of warmth and family, while the word “house” does not. A word’s ~~~ does not include any of the subjective or emotional associations that are part of that word’s connotation.
Some additional key details about ~~~:
Words may have an array of connotations. “Wall Street,” for example, connotes wealth, business, greed, and financial power, but it only literally means a street in the Financial District of Manhattan where many bankers work.
Two or more words can all have the same ~~~. The words “car” and “automobile” denote the same four-wheeled method of transportation.
Words that have multiple definitions also have multiple ~~~s.
