Academic Vocab #2

is the vantage point from which a story is told. It is the stance from which theaction and events of the story unfold.

• point of view

• archetype

• claim

• perspective

is a narrator's attitudes or beliefs about an event, person, or place based on their own personal experiences.

• claim

• point of view

• perspective

• rhetoric

is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group or country.

• claim

• cultural experience

• evaluate

• establish

the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies

• argument

• archetype

• thesis statement

• mythology

a collection of myths or stories about a specific person, culture, religion, or any group with shared beliefs

• claim

• rhetoric

• mythology

• evaluate

a reason or reasons why you support or oppose an idea or suggestion, or the process of explaining these reasons.

• argument

• claim

• thesis statement

• evaluate

to demand something of value because you believe it belongs to you or you have a right to it

• point of view

• thesis statement

• cultural experience

• claim

the art of persuasion

• mythology

• rhetoric

• archetype

• establish

After a brief introduction of your topic, you state your point of view on the topic directly and often in one sentence.

• perspective

• evaluate

• thesis statement

• establish

to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something

• point of view

• claim

• evaluate

• establish