English SLO Vocab Flashcards
(28 cards)
Evaluate
Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality of something; to assess
Analysis
The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.
Explicit
Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.
Connotation
The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning
Tone
The attitude of the author toward the audience, characters,subject or the work itself.
Refutation
Countering of anticipated arguments.
Authors purpose
The Authors intent either to inform or teach someone about something to entertain people or to persuade or convince his/her audience to do or not do something.
Antonym
A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word.
Characterization
The method an author uses to reveal and develop characters and their various traits and personalities.
Dialogue
In the widest sense, it is simply conversation between characters or speakers in a literacy work; in its most restricted sense, it refers specifically to the speech of characters in a drama.
Context clue
Words and phrases in a sentence paragraph, and/or whole text, which help reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
Biography
A written account of another person’s life
Fact
A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true.
Figurative language
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
Foreshadowing
An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments.
Genre
A category used to classify literary works, usual by form, technique or content.
Satire
A literacy approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.
Personification
An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form.
Main Idea
The authors central thought; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a word of phrase; the topic sentence of a paragraph.
Theme
A topic of discussion or work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of literary work.
Mood
The prevailing emotions or atmosphere of a work derived from literary devices such as dialogue and literary elements such as setting. It is not always what might be expected based on its subject matter.
Narrator
A person, animal, or thing who is telling the story or giving an account of something.
Setting
The time and place in which a story unfolds
Simile
A comparison of two unlike things is which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.
