The One with all the Vocabulary Terms (part 1)

a technique an author uses to persuade a reader to consider a topic from a different perspective

• mood

• rhetoric

• argument

• credibility

making reference to something familiar to most readers, it could be from history, literature, pop culture, etc.

• hyperbole

• assonance

• allusion

• theme

a shortened version of the text that states key points

• explicit

• credibility

• explicit

• summary

a comparison of two things using “like” or “as”

(a)  

words from a text used to support inferences and claims

• paraphrase

• textual evidence

• connotation

the quality of being trusted and believed in

• credibility

• fallacy

• invalidity

a means by which something is communicated or expressed (example - audio, video multimedia)

• central idea

• literal language

• medium

• technical meaning

the total amount of something when it's all added together

• parallel plot

• cumulative

• central idea

• average

emphasizing words and ideas that only somebody familiar with the particular subject would understand (example - “stem” in an article about flowers versus “stem” in an article about cell research)

• associated meaning

• literal meaning

• figurative meaning

• technical meaning

to examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations

• infer

• cite

• analyze

• hypothesize