English Words Mrs.Kirkmans class

Symbolic

To + verb

Process of creating goods and services

Values and beliefs passed from generation to generation

Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

Irony in which a person says or writes one thing but means another

Taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

The perspective from which a story is told

To restate in other words

A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun

To attach

And effect or results

A joke using the different meanings of similar sounding words

The act of leaving out or neglecting

Extra, excess, or more than is needed

Make clear the differences between two or more concepts or items

Believable

Factual, related to reality or physical objects not; influenced by emotions, unbiased

Of or relating to culture or cultivation

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

Definite, clearly stated

Cause someone to do something through reasoning or argument

Details in a text that support the conclusion

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

To work together

The implied or Associated meaning of the word

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

Backround information presented a literary work

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

Practices that are handed down from the past by tradition

Most noticeable or important

Derived from a verb, but used as an adjective

A statement put forth and supported by evidence

Where things come from

The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events

Combine one thing with another so that they become a whole

A word or phrase that links different ideas

A statement for forth and supported by evidence

Descriptive language that attempts to invoke one or more of the five senses

The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another

Enough or adequate

The subject performs an action

An assertion, usually supported by evidence

Evaluate or estimate the nature, ability, or quality of style the choices a writer makes

The subject of the sentence recieves the action

To make a document available to the General Public

A claim made to rebut a previous claim

To look at something carefully by attention to its parts

Different types of media including text, video, sound, graphics, or animations

Central idea of a work of literature

Closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

A conversation between charachters

A particular preference or point of view that is personal

To portray, sketch, or describe inaccurate in vivid detail

The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another

To draw forth, bring out from some source

The dictionary or literal definition of a word

How the information written within a text is organized

To make more Pure or precise

Forms of communication, such as newspapers andvrafio, to reach millions of people

Three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation

Add brief notes to a diagram or graph