VOCAB 4 DEFINITIONS

To examine relationships, connections, ideas, or examples by close reading a text.

• figurative launguage

• tone

• analyze

• melancholy

the feeling suggested by a word or a phrase

• connotative meaning

• nonchalant

• prompt

• narrator

language that cannot be taken literally. it creates a special effect or feeling.

• analyze

• mood

• prompt

• figurative language

the person, animal, or thing telling the story

• connotative meaning

• narrator

• melancholy

• prompt

a statement about a passage, followed by an essay question to answer

• prompt

• tone

• analyze

• figurative language

the attitude of the narrator or speaker, or the authors attitude towards a subject, (serious, angry, joyful, ext)

• mood

• prompt

• analyze

• tone

the atmosphere of a story (emotion the reader will feel while reading)

• mood

• tone

• figurative language

• melancholy

feeling of sorry or sadness

• mood

• narrator

• melancholy

• tone

feeling of being casual, calm, and relaxed: not showing anxiety

• mood

• nonchalant

• tone

• connotative meaning