Academic Vocab

a logical guess or assumption about something that
has not happened yet

• Prediction
• Analysis
• Foreshadowing
• Assumption

a study of the details of a work to identify essential
features or meaning

• Annotation
• Analysis
• Note-taking
• Study

a writer’s choice of words

• Diction
• Denotation
• Connotation
• Definition

a sentence that states the writer’s position or opinion on the topic of the essay

• Main Idea
• Theme
• Statement
• Thesis

a writer’s attitude toward a subject

• Tone
• Mood
• Connotation
• Analysis

clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot

• Prediction
• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

a comparison of the similarity of two things

• Metaphor
• Analogy
• Simile
• Analogous

descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures that appeal to one or more of the five sens

• Literary Devices
• Prose
• Imagery
• Description

the character who opposes or struggles against the main character

• Antagonist
• Protagonist
• Villian
• Hero

a character, symbol, story pattern, or other element that recur in myths, art and literature through the world

• Symbol
• Archetype
• Stereotype
• Archetypal