SLO Vocabulary

Question 1

Evaluate

Answer 1

Examine and judge carefully.

Question 2

Analysis

Answer 2

The process or result of 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

Connotation

Answer 4

The range of associations that a word or phrase suggests 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

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

Question 8

Juxtaposition

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Refutation

Answer 9

Countering pr anticipated arguments.

Question 10

Rhetoric

Answer 10

The art and study of effective writing and speech.

Question 11

Author’s Purpose

Answer 11

The author’s intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people or to persuade or convince his/her audience to his/her.

Question 12

Conflict

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Antonym

Answer 13

A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word.

Question 14

Hyperbole

Answer 14

An intentional exaggeration or overstatement for effect.

Question 15

Characterization

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.

Question 17

Dialogue

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Context Clue

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Differentiate

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Biography

Answer 20

A written account of another person’s life.

Question 21

Fact

Answer 21

A piece of information provided objectively,presented as true.

Question 22

Figurative language

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Genre

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Satire

Answer 24

A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness.

Question 25

Synonym

Answer 25

A word is similar in meaning to another word.

Question 26

Personification

Answer 26

An object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form.

Question 27

Main idea

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Theme

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Metaphor

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Mood

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

Opinion

Answer 31

A personal view, attitude, or appraisal.

Question 32

Narrator

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Point of View

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Setting

Answer 34

The time and place in which a story unfolds.

Question 35

Simile

Answer 35

A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used.

Question 36

Plot

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Summarize

Answer 37

To capture all of the most important parts of the original text (paragraph, sorry, poem), but express them in a much shorter space, and as much as possible in the reader's own words.

Question 38

Tone

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Symbolism

Answer 39

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

Question 40

Prefix

Answer 40

Groups of letters placed before a word to alter its meaning.

Question 41

Sufix

Answer 41

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