Ms.Mais English IV Vocabulary

Hold up

A poetry term for paragraph; a section of a poem

Visual material used to clarify or add to a text

The author's attitude or outlook

Arrange; classify

Elaborate or expand

An indirect comparison

Tell in your own words

Organization of a text

Arrange in classes according to shared qualities;order, organize, sort

Put together

The association that a word brings to mind

Give an account of an event or an experience; retell in detail and in order

A unified idea

Explain the meaning of

Break something down into parts

Deduce; conclude

Make plain or define

Find differences

Find value; judge

Put in different words

The way the author makes the reader feel

Outline; follow the course of

Quote

Describe in detail

Find likenesses

A mutual or reciprocal action

A reason or set of reasons that something is true

A direct comparison using like or as

Find

Understand; find meaning

Relating what you read to something else you know

Knowledge on which to base a belief

The art of writing or speaking effectively

Take or pull out

Words in a row with the same initial consonant sound

Isolated facts that support ideas

Set apart

Fully and clearly expressed; precisely, clearly

Explain the meaning of

The vantage point from which a story is told

Find; point out

Express clearly

Decide

Summing up of an argument or text

Combine to form a more complex product

Identify something you have seen before; know, spot

Putting classified items into smaller groups; catalog, label, group

A similarity between like features of two things

Sum up

Figures of speech used to make meaning clearer

Tell the facts, details

Most important point the author makes

Mention

Put forth; to say

Show clearly