Semester 1 Vocabulary Exam

to determine something not stated directly by using reasoning and evidence from the text

• Interpretation
• Inference
• Conclusion
• Exposition

the sequence of events that take place in a work of literature

• Plot
• Theme
• Setting
• Character

implied but not stated directly

• explicit
• obvious
• clear
• implicit

to establish validity; to verify, to prove

• interpret

• confirm

• analyze

• invalidate

hints about what might happen next

• literary device

• setting

• foreshadowing

• prediction

the time and place of the events in a work of literature

• plot
• characterization
• theme
• setting

the emotional atmosphere of a piece of writing, created through diction, figurative language, and other choices

• Mood
• Tone
• Plot
• Character

word choice, or the type of language an author uses

• grammar
• punctuation
• syntax
• diction

a quality that defines certain types of writing

• Confusion
• genre characteristic

• Complexity
• irony

the events, situation, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that helps explain its meaning

• background
• center
• context
• foreground