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Academic Vocabulary
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Summary
What is a short restatement of a piece of writing in the reader's own words?
100
Metaphor
What is an implied comparison between two usually unrelated things?
100
Mood
What is the atmosphere created by a writer's diction and the details selected?
100
Paraphrasing
What is putting the text you read into your own words?
100
Allusion
What is a reference to another piece of literature or to history?
200
Author's Purpose
What is a writer's reason for creating a work?
200
Flashback
What is it when the author goes back in time to explain something that will help the reader understand the story better?
200
Theme
What is a message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader?
200
Fiction
What is writing that reads much like fiction except that the characters, setting, and plot are real rather than imaginary?
200
Alliteration
What is the repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line?
300
Climax
What is the highest point (turning point) in the action of a story?
300
Irony
What is a discrepancy between appearance and reality?
300
Cause/Effect
What is the relationships between two or more events in which one event brings about another?
300
Expository
What is writing that gives info, explains why or how, or defines a concept?
300
Onomatopoeia
What is words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean?
400
Setting
What is the "when & where" a story takes place?
400
Hyperbole
What is an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis?
400
Inference
What is thinking about clues in the text along with your own prior knowledge in order to make an educated guess about the unstated idea?
400
Character
What is a person, an animal, or an imaginary creature that takes part in the action of a story?
400
Personification
What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects?
500
Protagonist
Who is the hero of the story?
500
Point of View
What is the vantage point from which the writer tells the story?
500
Main Idea
What is the central idea in a piece of writing?
500
Plot
What is the action or sequence of events in a story?
500
Imagery
What is using words to create a picture in the reader's mind?