Academic Words Flashcard (#1-40 multiple choice only)

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What is the feeling the story is trying to create?

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Mood is the emotional atmosphere of a story.

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What is a statement that provides your answer?

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A claim is a statement that asserts something to be true.

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What does it mean to quote a text in order to use it as evidence for an answer?

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To cite means to refer to a source as evidence.

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What is a type of figurative language when a sentence has words with the same beginning sound?

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What does it mean to help or add to?

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To support means to provide assistance or reinforcement.

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What is the term for the time and place in which a story occurs?

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Setting refers to the environment in which a story takes place.

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What is a figure of speech that gives human qualities to non-human things?

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Personification is attributing human characteristics to non-human entities.

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What is a common expression that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning?

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An idiom is a phrase where the meaning is not deducible from the individual words.

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What is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms?

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An oxymoron is a figure of speech that juxtaposes contradictory elements.

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What is the sequence of events in a story?

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Plot is the structured sequence of events that make up a story.