Academic vocab Flashcards
(23 cards)
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, usually influencing its meaning or effect:
relevant
needed information
figurative language
figures of speech
dialouge
to speak in a text
mood
Grammar.
a set of categories for which the verb is inflected in many languages, and that is typically used to indicate the syntactic relation of the clause in which the verb occurs to other clauses in the sentence, or the attitude of the speaker toward what he or she is saying, as certainty or uncertainty, wish or command, emphasis or hesitancy.
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:
a central idea
unifying element of the story, which ties together all of the other elements of fiction used by the author to tell the story.
judgment
an act or instance of judging
thesis
a statement that is like the main idea of a speech
convey
what the author was trying to say in the text
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
precise
definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed
verb
action
adverb
any member of a class of words that function as modifiers of verbs or clauses, and in some languages,
signifagant
important
imagery
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively:
repetition
the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
symbolism
the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
point of view
a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint:
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.
