Academic Vocabulary
A verb that means to hold back; or to restrict.
What is constrain?
The features of this genre are character, setting, point of view, plot and theme.
What is fiction?
This is the conversation between the characters in a piece of writing.
What is dialogue?
This noun means the characteristics or qualities that make an individual who they are.
What is personality?
What is a line?
A verb that means to share information or to express thoughts or feelings.
What is communicate?
The features of this genre are stanzas, lines, figurative language, rhyme scheme, rhythm, and sound devices.
What is poetry?
This is the most important statement in the introductory paragraph of a literary analysis. It will include TAG, TTQA, and an answer to the prompt.
What is a thesis?
This noun means a possible explanation that can be debated but is not accepted by all.
What is a theory?
The basic unit of a poem, made up of a series of lines.
What is a stanza?
This noun means a condition that influences some event or activity.
What is circumstance?
The features of this genre are acts, scenes, dialogue, stage directions, character, setting, and plot.
What is drama?
These are details that are taken directly from the text, and are punctuated using quotation marks at the beginning and the end.
What is textual evidence?
This noun means a strong belief about what is valuable, important, or acceptable?
What is value?
This is the repetition of the same or similar sounds in a poem.
What is rhyme?
This verb means to discuss the pros and cons of an issue.
What is debate?
The features of this genre are text features, graphic features, specialized vocabulary, facts, statistics and text structure.
What is informational text?
These are words that help the writing to move smoothly from one paragraph to another, or from one topic to another.
What are transition words?
This word means that something is not able to be identified?
What is unrecognizable?
This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is rhythm?
This adjective means that something is easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind.
What is obvious?
The features of this genre are text structure, rhetorical devices, counter argument, claim, evidence, and reasoning.
What is an argumentative text?
These are the final steps (3) to take before submitting a writing assignment after you finish writing.
What is proofread, edit, and revise?
Deoxyribonucleic acid; This is the molecule carrying instructions for making proteins which is passed on from parent to child.
What is DNA?
The organization of words and lines in a poem as well as the rhyme scheme and meter.
What is the poetic structure?