Academic vocab

Question 1

context

Answer 1

the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect:

Question 2

relavent

Answer 2

bearing up with the matter in hand

Question 3

figurative language

Answer 3

figurative speach metaphores

Question 4

dialogue

Answer 4

conversation to two or more people

Question 5

tone

Answer 5

any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc

Question 6

fac

Answer 6

do or make

Question 7

mood

Answer 7

the way you feel

Question 8

paraphrase

Answer 8

a reinstatment

Question 9

central idea

Answer 9

a differing unifying moment

Question 10

judgement

Answer 10

an act or instance of judgeing

Question 11

claim

Answer 11

to demand by virtue of right

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

CONVEY

Answer 13

to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.

Question 14

pronoun

Answer 14

any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases

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

verb

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

adverb

Answer 17

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, as very in very nice, much in much more impressive, and tomorrow in She'll write to you tomorrow. They relate to what they modify by indicating place (I promise to be there), time (Do your homework now!), manner (She sings beautifully), circumstance (He accidentally dropped the glass when the bell rang), degree (I'm very happy to see you), or cause (I draw, although badly).
See also sentence adverb

Question 18

significant

Answer 18

import of secuence

Question 19

allusion

Answer 19

a passing or casual refrence.

Question 20

flashback

Answer 20

a device in the narrative of a motion picture

Question 21

point of view

Answer 21

a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal

Question 22

imagery

Answer 22

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

Question 23

repetition

Answer 23

the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again;

Question 24

symbolism

Answer 24

the practice of representing things by symbols