Academic Vocabulary Practice #3

A prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, addressed to another character or characters onstage, rather than to the audience, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation.

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The feeling created in a work by the word choice, images, setting, etc.

• Mood

• Irony

• Setting

• Voice

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.

• Narrative

• Argument

• Diction

• Research

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.3A

CCSS.W.9-10.3B

CCSS.W.9-10.3D

A person who gives an account or tells the story of events, experiences, etc.

• Narrator

• Plot

• Foreshadowing

• Dynamic Character

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.3A

The branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Bias

• Theme

The formation of a word by imitation of a sound made by or associated with the object to which it refers.

• Onomatopoeia

• Infer/Inference

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A figure of speech by which two words are seemingly contradictory.

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Appositive Phrase

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.

• Paradox

• Aphorism

• Bias

• Narrator

The repetition of a syntactic construction in successive sentences for rhetorical effect.

• Parallelism

• Simile

• Colon

• Bias

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

A restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.

• Paraphrase

• Bias

• Research

• Critique

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.2