Academic Vocabulary
To communicate or share
What is convey>
A 19-line poem with 5 tercets and 1 quatrain.
What is a villanelle poem?
True or False
Figurative Language is language used for descriptive effect or to imply ideas indirectly.
What is TRUE?
This structure outlines an issue or conflict and the ways it can be fixed.
What is problem/solution?
A statement that something is true or factual although others may not believe it.
What is a claim?
What is central idea?
Communication or involvement between two or more characters is an __________.
What is interaction?
The meaning of the idiom "out of the blue".
What is something that occurs unexpectedly without warning?
What is the text structure?
A section of text that discusses the reasons of World War II and how it affected the world for years to come.
What is Cause & Effect?
What type of reasoning is used below: inductive, deductive, or abductive?
It's dangerous to drive in the rain. It is raining now, so it would be dangerous to drive on the road right now.
What is deductive reasoning?
The unique attitude, feeling, or view point the author has on a particular topic or in text.
What is perspective?
The RHYME SCHEME helps to create or show an author's __________ or attitude/feeling.
What is tone?
Details that show the author's credibility or that a reader can trust the author.
What is ETHOS?
The difference between Author's Purpose and Author's Perspective
An author's purpose is why the author writes; author's perspective is how the feel about the topic.
Refrains (repeated lines) and rhyme schemes can emphasize messages or _________.
What are themes?
The forming of a general conclusion from specific observations or patterns.
What is inductive reasoning?
Which of the following is NOT used to reveal a theme?
a) Details about the author's life.
b) Details about plot events.
c) Description, imagery, and figurative language.
d) Details about character interactions.
What is A.
Details about the author's life.
What is rhetoric?
When the central idea is not directly stated in the text.
What is implicit central idea?
Which of the following is a character interaction that would develop the plot?
A) A narrator walks to school and describes the people he sees driving cars and how the weather affects them.
B) Two characters are arguing about who is responsible for the broken dishes as mom comes home.
What is B?
The techniques used by speakers and writers to make their language more persuasive, engaging, and impactful
What are rhetorical devices?
The point of view that the narrator uses to reveal the thoughts and experiences of all the characters.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
The idea that is being emphasized through alliteration in this example...
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly their came a tapping."
What is the speaker was calm and almost asleep until a tapping sound shocked him/her?
Author uses text structure and features in a section of text to convey meaning.
What does it mean to convey meaning?
What is to communicate an idea, feeling, or impression?
Is it Pathos, logos, or ethos?
Students who consistently practice a skill show measurable improvement over time; therefore, dedicating daily practice increases the probability of long-term academic success.
What is logos?