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Academic Vocab
fall 2014
31
English
10th Grade
11/10/2014

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Characteristic
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a typical
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cite
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quote a passage book or author as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement especially in scholarly work
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dialouge
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conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book play or movie
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excerpt
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a part, the teacher read the short excerpt
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indicate
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to indicate is to point out or show
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intended
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intended means planned or meant
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persuasive
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persuasive is being good at convincing someone to do something, being good at convincing people to do things you want need or trick them on to thnking
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plot
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the plot is the main events of a play novel movie or similar work devised and presented by the writer
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point of view
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the point of view is the nararrators postion in the relation on the story being told
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protagonist
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a protagonist is the control character of leading figure in poetry
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antogonist
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an antogonist is a character or group hes the hero good guy
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quotations
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quotations are a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone otehr then the original author
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revising
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is going over basically what you did spelling checking. is the act of editing correction admending
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simile
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is a figure of speech using LIKE OR AS TWo unlike things
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metaphor
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a metaphor is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared
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imagery
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imagery is the use of language or other facets
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symbolic imagery
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its imagery withing artistic often including novels poems and other works
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thesis statement
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the thesis statement is that sentence or two in your text
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emphasize
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means to give special importance or promise to something in the speaker or writing
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enhance
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means to intensify increase or further improve the quality value or extent
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Evoke
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is to bring or recall to the conscious mind
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ideal
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means satisfying ones conception of what is perfect most suitable
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imply
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means to strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated)
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indicate
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means planned or meant issues are important topics or problems for debate or discussion
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obtaining
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means to get acquire or secure
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optimistic
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means to be hopeful and confident about the future
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pessimistic
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means to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen
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phony
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is not genuine fraudulent
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primarily
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means for the most part
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rational
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means based on or in accordance with reason or logic
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reveal
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means to make (previously unknown or secret infromation0 known to others
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