Choice of words in speaking or writing for clearand effective expression.
What is Diction?
100
To find a fact or answer.
What is Scan?
100
"Reading between the lines."
What is Inference?
100
The central or universal idea of a piece of fiction or the main idea of a nonfiction essay.
What is Theme?
100
The use of words in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is expected.
What is Irony?
200
The use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions.
( Taste, sight, smell, touch,....)
(e.g., the imagery of the phrase such sweet sorrow)
What is Imagery?
200
To find general concepts and ideas.
What is Skim?
200
A type of inference about the relationship between an event and why it happened.
What is Cause/effects ?
200
The author's primary aim in a piece of writing. The purpose could be to narrate, to argue, to review, to explan, or to examine.
What is Rhetorical purpose?
200
The use of symbolsto represent abstract ideas in concrete ways. ( e.g., The United States flag stands for freedom.)
What is Symbolism?
300
Specialized vocabulary that is used within a particular context.
What is Academic vocabulary?
300
A type of inference about the future.
What is prediction?
300
A statement that applies to all members of a group/class of persons,places, things, events supported by information.
What is Generalization?
300
Stories that were originally oral and later became written text.
What is Traditional literature?
300
A reference within a literary work to another work of literature, art, or real event.
What is Allusion?
400
The dictionary definition of a word; the literal or cognative meaning.
What is Denotative meaning?
400
The emotions or set of associations attached to a word that is implied rather than literal.
What is Connotative meaning?
400
A judgement or statement about a person, place, thing,event, future prediction, or why something happened that is inferred or deduced from evidence.
What is Conclusion?
400
A body of traditional or sacred stories to explain a belief or a natural happening?
What is Mythic literature?
400
A bitter form of irony, intended to taunt or hurt.
What is Sarcasm?
500
Language layered with meaning by word images and figures of speech.
What is Figurative language?
500
The use of inductive and deductive reasoning.
What is Complex inference?
500
Specific details or facts found in text that support what is inferred.
What is Textual evidence?
500
Literature that is widely acknowledged for its outstanding and enduring qualities that became written text.
What is Classical literature?
500
A seemingly contradictory statement that on closer scrutiny reveals a deeper truth (e.g., Life is but a dream.)