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Make Inferences
Find Meaning in Metaphors
The Writer's Perspecticve
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Refers to a word's explicit or literal meaning.
What is Denotation
100
A nonliteral comparison, often highly visual - sometimes called figures of speech.
What is Figurative Expressions
100
The writer's reasons for writing.
What is Purpose
100
Persuades you to believe something or do something - style of writing.
What is Argument
100
Tells a story - writing style.
What is Narration
200
To make connections and draw logical conclusions based on the evidence provided.
What is Infer
200
An implied comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
What is Metaphor
200
Ironic use of a term to mean its opposite.
What is Sarcasm
200
Always depends on the opposition between the literal meaning of the words and the intended message.
What is Irony
200
The people who have no special background in a subject.
What is General Audience
300
The cluster of suggestions, implications, or emotional responses that a word carries with it.
What is Connotation
300
A clear-cut or explicit comparison, because it uses the words "like" or "as."
What is Simile
300
Way of looking at a subject; your position on it.
What is Perspective
300
Shows the writer's attitude or mood.
What is Tone
300
Shows what someone or something looks like - writing style.
What is Description
400
Ideas we hold based on our previous beliefs and experience - ones we take for grant it.
What is Assumptions
400
One question that can be asked when interpreting metaphors.
What is: What two things are being compared? What characteristics do these two things have in common? What does the metaphor mean in literal terms?
400
Leaning to one or another side of a debatable question; emotional involvement.
What is Bias
400
The people a writer wants to reach.
What is Intended Audience
400
Neutral, free from emotional attachment to one side or the other.
What is Objective
500
To suggest meaning by using certain words, details, or other evidence.
What is Imply
500
Simile or metaphor: The leather was as soft as butter. Why?
What is Simile - uses the word as
500
Name the 4 styles of writing.
What is Narration, Description, Exposition, Argument
500
Having emotional involvement or bias (leaning) to one side or the other.
What is Subjective
500
Explains something or informs - writing style.
What is Exposition or Expository