Grade 7 - 9 Vocabulary

when a person tries to put themselves in the place of the speaker and listens seriously to what he or she has to say.

• acronym

• Active listening

• alliteration

• analogy

when an expectation of some high point of importance or excitement is not fulfilled or the seriousness

• anti-climax

• antithesis

• antonym

• bias

a tendency to favour one thing, idea, attitude or person over another which makes it difficult to make a fair assessment

• coherence

• comparative

• drawing conclusions

• bias

a mild or vague expression substituted for a thought or word which is felt to be too harsh or direct

• emotive language

• euphemism

• explicit

• gesture

a word which has both the same sound and spelling as another but has a different meaning (e.g. the

noun ‘the bear’ and the verb ‘to bear’)

• hyperbole

• homonym

• homophone

• jargon

special terms or expressions used in a trade or profession or by any specific group (e.g. computer users

• paradox

• oxymoron

• professionalism

• jargon

a restatement of an idea or text in one’s own words

• quotation

• paraphrase

• suggestion

• editing

the use of ridicule, sarcasm and irony to comment critically on society or individual or a situation

• satire

• irony

• banter

• communism

a fixed conventional (and often biased) view about what role a particular person is expected to play

• verbosity

• stereotype

• strategy

• malapropism

to pick up meaning behind what is stated and to deduce all the implications

• refer

• infer

• defer

• appropriate