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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Explicit

Answer 3

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual text.

Question 4

Connotion

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Irony

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Inference

Answer 6

A judgment based on reasoning rather than on a direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances

Question 7

Tone

Answer 7

Attitude of the author toward the audience characters, subject, or the work itself

Question 8

Refution

Answer 8

Countering of anticipated arguments

Question 9

Juxposition

Answer 9

Placing one thing adjacent to another. Especially for comparison and contrast.

Question 10

Rhetoric

Answer 10

The art and study of effective writing and speech

Question 11

Allusion

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Imagrey

Answer 12

Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory images

Question 13

Authors purpose

Answer 13

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 to do something

Question 14

Conflict

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Antyonym

Answer 15

A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word

Question 16

Hyperbole

Answer 16

An intentional exaggeration or overstatement or effect.

Question 17

Characterization

Answer 17

The method an author uses to reveal and develop characters and their various traits and personalities.

Question 18

Alliteration

Answer 18

The repetitions of initial sounds in neighboring words.

Question 19

Dialgue

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Context clues

Answer 20

Words and phrases in a sentence, Paragraph, and/or whole/or, which helps reason out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

Question 21

Biography

Answer 21

A written account of another persons life.

Question 22

Differentiate

Answer 22

Distinguish, tell apart, and recognize defenses between two or more items.

Question 23

Fact

Answer 23

A piece of information provided objectively presented as true.

Question 24

Figurative language

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Foreshadowing

Answer 25

An organizational device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanations

Question 26

Genre

Answer 26

A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content

Question 27

Satire

Answer 27

A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice weakness.

Question 28

Synonym

Answer 28

a word that is similar in meaning to another word.

Question 29

Personification

Answer 29

An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form

Question 30

Main Idea

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Theme

Answer 31

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