Extra Credit Vocabulary

To make or add explanatory notes

• Allusion

• Commentary

• Annotate

• Inference

An inversion of reasonable expectations

• Irony

• Development

• Message

• Non-Linear Plot

Not expressly stated, implied

• Paraphrase

• Implicit

• Subplot

• Explicit

A statement that the author intends to support and prove

• Thesis

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Tone

Author's intent for writing

• Author's purpose

• Context

• Digital

• Informational

A supporting character who has contrasting personality and set of values

• Characterization

• Antagonist

• Character Foil

• Protagonist

Highlight and explain the details of a character in a story

• Commentary

• Context

• Character Foil

• Characterization

The general principle, message of a text, life lesson embedded in multiple texts.

• Prosody

• Thesis

• Theme

• Syntax

A restatement of a text or passage, rewording

• Parallel construction

• Paraphrase

• Inference

• Repitition

The arrangement of words and phrases within sentences

• Oxymoron

• Prosody

• Diction

• Syntax