Academic Vocabulary

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to add notes to a text

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annotate

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to become known or apparent

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emerges

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enough; adequate

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sufficient

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what the story is mostly about; unique to the text

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central idea

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to examine something closely in order to understand it

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analyze

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a brief statement that summarizes the main point or claim of a text

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thesis statement

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the underlying message or lesson of a literary work

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theme

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the perspective from which a story is told

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point of view

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the use of clues to suggest what will happen later in the story

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foreshadowing

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a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

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simile