1st 6 Weeks Academic Vocabulary

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The author’s reason or intent for writing a text.

• Annotation

• Denotation

• Author's Purpose

• Audience

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A meaningful explanatory comment that you add in the margin as you read a passage.

• Annotation

• Denotation

• Author's Purpose

• Connotation

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The type of reader for whom a literary work is intended.

• Flashback

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Foreshadowing

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The implied meaning of a word. 

• Annontation

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Audience

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The dictionary meaning of a word.

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Tone

• Mood

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An event taking place before the present time in the narrative.

• Mood

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Tone

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The way the text makes the reader feel.

• Mood

• Tone

• Theme

• Audience

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A description appealing to the
five senses.

• Author's Purpose

• Imagery

• Connotation

• Tone

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To conclude from evidence; to lead to as a result or conclusion.

• Author's Purpose

• Imagery

• Inference

• Tone

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What the author says about the
thematic topic.

• Author's Purpose

• Imagery

• Theme

• Tone

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A hint of what will come later in the story.

• Flashback

• Imagery

• Foreshadowing

• Mood

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To express sorrow or regret; to
mourn

• Lament

• Fathom

• Capacious

• Sage

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 Roomy; able to hold much

• Lament

• Sage

• Capacious

• Sage

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A person of wisdom and prudence.

• Lament

• Sage

• Capacious

• Sage

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To accumulate over time

• Accrue

• Sage

• Capacious

• Lament

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To understand fully; to infiltrate the meaning of

• Lament

• Capacious

• Fathom

• Sage