Academic Vocab

Question 1

Cite

Answer 1

to mention in support, proof, or confirmation

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

the parts of a piece of writing, speech, etc, that precede and follow a word or passage and contribute to its full meaning

Question 3

Relevant

Answer 3

Connected with the matter in hand

Question 4

figurative language

Answer 4

language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors.

Question 5

mood

Answer 5

a frame of mind disposed or receptive, as to some activity or thing:

Question 6

paraphase

Answer 6

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

Question 7

elaborate

Answer 7

worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness

Question 8

theme

Answer 8

a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:

Question 9

central idea

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Judgement

Answer 10

an act or instance of judging.

Question 11

claim

Answer 11

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

Question 12

thesis

Answer 12

a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:

Question 13

pronoun

Answer 13

any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference, as I, you, he, this, who, what. Pronouns are sometimes formally distinguished from nouns, as in English by the existence of special objective forms, as him for he or me for I, and by nonoccurrence with an article or adjective.

Question 14

connotation

Answer 14

the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning: A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”.
the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning.

Question 15

denotation

Answer 15

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 16

precise

Answer 16

definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:

Question 17

verb

Answer 17

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./action

Question 18

adverb

Answer 18

a word that adds to verbs

Question 19

significant

Answer 19

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

Question 20

allusion

Answer 20

the act of alluding; the making of a casual or indirect reference to something:

Question 21

flashback

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Point of view

Answer 22

a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint:

Question 23

imaginary

Answer 23

the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively:

Question 24

repetition

Answer 24

the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.

Question 25

symbolism

Answer 25

the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.

Question 26

Ment

Answer 26

Condition, process, agent, means or place of action

Question 27

tive

Answer 27

is like or pertaining to

Question 28

itive

Answer 28

is relating to or serving to

Question 29

ness

Answer 29

refers to a headland or promontory

Question 30

ity

Answer 30

“state of” or “quality of

Question 31

ence

Answer 31

the act of