Academic Vocabulary Test--English 10H--Per. 2

When something is understood, even though one does not explain it out loud. People sometimes have biases that fall into this category.

• implicit

• plot

• theme

• mood

Something out in the open, known, visible. Also can mean language that is R or NC-17 rated.

• explicit

• implicit

• irony

• simile

A type of language that doesn't directly state what it means, but still conveys/shows meaning. Used a lot by authors to bring color and life to their descriptions.

• figurative

• literal

• logos

• claim

If I want to get the actual meaning of a text, without a lot of figurative language or "dressing up", I want to get a __________meaning of the text.

• literal

• theme

• tone

• exposition

Describing one's home as "a place of warmth, peace, and total security" uses ___________________to tell us that there is a deeper, secondary meaning to the word, one that is associated with the word "home".

• connotation

• denotation

• sub-claims

• vagueness

This word means the most direct or specific meaning of the word. The ________________of the word "teacher" would be "a person who is in charge of educating students and assessing their progress".

• Denotation

• tone

• rising action

• allusion

The detective who saw the pool of blood in the entryway to the man's house made an ________________that someone had been seriously hurt.

• inference

• climax

• flashback

• anecdote

The term that describes the sequence of events in a story, which, together, makes a chart that begins with exposition, and, usually, ends with the resolution.

• plot

• resolution

• rising action

• setting

These happen in literature when an author refers to either another book or event in history, and the reader connects the book they are reading with another book or character or storyline, etc.

• allusion

• falling action

• characterization

• dramatic irony

Answers the big question, "What is the lesson of the story? What is the book about, if you had to put it into one word or a brief phrase?" Examples include: love, war, relationships, power, etc.

• theme

• foreshadowing

• omniscient narrator

• diction