SLO Vocab

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

Examine and judge carefully. To judge or determine the significance worth or quality of something; to assess

Question 2

Analysis

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The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another

Question 3

Explicit

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Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text

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Connotation

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The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning

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Inference

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A judgement based on reasoning rather than a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based in facts or circumstances; understanding gained by “reading between the lines.”

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Tone

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The attitude of the author toward the audience characters, subject or the work itself

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Refutation

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Countering of anticipated arguments

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Juxtaposition

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Placing one thing adjacent to another, especially for comparison and contrast

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Allusion

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an implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event

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Author’s Purpose

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The author’s intent is to either inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people or to persuade or convince his/her audience to do or not do something.

Question 11

Suffix

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Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning or change it into a different kind of room from an adjective to an adverb etc

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Conflict

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A struggle or class between opposing characters, forces, or emotions

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Antonym

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A word that is opposite in meaning to another word

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Hyperbole

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An intentional exaggeration or overstatement for effect

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Characterization

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The method an author uses to reveal and develop characters and their various traits and personalities (e.g., direct, indirect)

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

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Dialogue

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In the widest sense, it is simply conversation between Characters or speakers in a literary work; in its most restricted sense, it refers specially to the speech of characters in drama

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Biography

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A written account of another person’s life

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Differentiate

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Distinguish, tell part, and recognize differences between two or more items

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Fact

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A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true

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Figurative Language

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Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling

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Foreshadowing

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An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later development

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Genre

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A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique, or content(e.g. horror, adventure).

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Satire

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A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness

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Personification

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An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form

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Theme

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A topic of discussion or work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work

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Mood

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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

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Opinion

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A personal view, attitude, or appraisal

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Narrator

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A person animal, or thing telling the story or giving an account of something

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Point Of Veiw

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The position of the narrator on relation to the story as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted

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Plot

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The structure of a story the sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often included the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution

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Summarize

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To capture the most important parts of the original text, but express them in a much shorter space, and as much as possible in the readers own words

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Symbolism

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A device in literature where an object represents an idea

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Prefix

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A group of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning

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Suffix

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Groups of letters placed after a word to alter its meaning or change it into a different kind of word, from an adjective to an adverb, ect

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Context Clue

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Words and phrases in a sentence, paragraph and/or whole text, which help reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word

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Synonym

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A word that is similar in meaning to another word

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Irony

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Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events in the expected result

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Main Idea

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The author's central thought; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a word or phrase; the topic sentence of a paragraph

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Metaphor

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The comparison of two unlike things in which no words of comparison (like or as) are used

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Setting

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The time and place in which a story unfolds

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Simile

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Comparison of two on my things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used