Academic Terms
What does it mean to annotate?
To highlight/underline important information and to leave comments, questions, inferences, etc. as you read.
A sickness or an injury:
Ailment
Marked with dirt or discoloration:
Stained
To frown angrily
Scowl
The author's attitude towards the subject their writing about is called...
Tone
Making an inference
Small drops of water that form when the air warms:
Dew
Private or shy:
Coy
To fall in small drops
Dribble
The literal definition of a word is called its...
Denotation
The series of events in a story is called...
The plot
Someone who is deceitful and unreliable. Someone who lies, steals, cheats, etc.:
Rogue
Outrageously evil:
Heinous
To get worse over time:
Deteriorate
"My mind is a fast moving river"
What type of figurative language is this?
Metaphor
Define SYMBOLISM
The use of objects/images to represent larger, more abstract ideas
A woman who supports or protects others:
Patroness
Bad; hostile
Adverse
To take the most important parts of something and put it in a different form:
Distill
The choice of words in writing and in speech is called:
Diction
"The blanket wrapped its warm arms around me" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
The tiny, unimportant details of something:
Minutiae
Welcoming and friendly to someone/something:
Hospitable
To figure something out by making an inference or using insight:
Divine
The emotions/ideas associated with a word is called a word's:
Connotation