Vocabulary Week 1:
1.poetry
2.verse
3.heap
4.form
5.analyze
6.auger
7.stanza
8.headlong
9.glistening
10.speaker
Vocabulary Week 2:
1.extended metaphor
2.dialect
3.theme
4.figurative language
5.imagery
6.cite
7.evidence
8.literary devices
9.vivid
10.literal
Vocabulary Week 3:
1.symbolism
2.point of view
3.first person point of view
4.third person point of view
5.compare
6.contrast
7.context clues
8.grapple
9.interpretation
10.annotate
Vocabulary Week 4:
1. characterization
2. exposition
3. rising action
4. climax
5. falling action
6. resolution
7. irony
8. flashback
9. foreshadow
10. conflict
Vocabulary Week 5:
1. noun
2. adjective
3. adverb
4. verb
5. predicate
6. preposition
7. clause
8. conjunction
9. interjection
10. pronoun
Vocabulary Week 6:
1. expository
2. text
3. glossary
4.general
5. specific
6. format
7.index
8. transition
9. credibility
10. authors purpose
Vocabulary Week 9:
1. Claim: A presentation of an idea as fact; a thesis; an opinion supported by evidence
2. Hyperbole: An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true.
Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
3. Oxymoron: When something is described using contradictory terms.
Example: jumbo shrimp; definite maybe; deafening silence.
4. Citation: giving credit for textual evidence
5. Argument: is an attempt to persuade someone of something, by giving reasons or evidence for accepting a particular conclusion
6. Support: to serve as a foundation; back up a claim
7. Elaboration: adding details; explaining further
8. Personification: A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.
Example: My teddy bear gave me a hug.
9. Idiom: an expression that is not meant to be taken literally.
Example: It’s raining cats and dogs.
10. Cliché: an expression that has been used so often that it has become common and sometimes boring.
Examples: Opposites attract. You are what you eat.
Vocabulary Week 10
1.poetry
2.verse
3.heap
4.form
5.analyze
6.auger
7.stanza
8.headlong
9.glistening
10.speaker
Vocabulary Week 2:
1.extended metaphor
2.dialect
3.theme
4.figurative language
5.imagery
6.cite
7.evidence
8.literary devices
9.vivid
10.literal
Vocabulary Week 3:
1.symbolism
2.point of view
3.first person point of view
4.third person point of view
5.compare
6.contrast
7.context clues
8.grapple
9.interpretation
10.annotate
Vocabulary Week 4:
1. characterization
2. exposition
3. rising action
4. climax
5. falling action
6. resolution
7. irony
8. flashback
9. foreshadow
10. conflict
Vocabulary Week 5:
1. noun
2. adjective
3. adverb
4. verb
5. predicate
6. preposition
7. clause
8. conjunction
9. interjection
10. pronoun
Vocabulary Week 6:
1. expository
2. text
3. glossary
4.general
5. specific
6. format
7.index
8. transition
9. credibility
10. authors purpose
Vocabulary Week 9:
1. Claim: A presentation of an idea as fact; a thesis; an opinion supported by evidence
2. Hyperbole: An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is true.
Example: I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
3. Oxymoron: When something is described using contradictory terms.
Example: jumbo shrimp; definite maybe; deafening silence.
4. Citation: giving credit for textual evidence
5. Argument: is an attempt to persuade someone of something, by giving reasons or evidence for accepting a particular conclusion
6. Support: to serve as a foundation; back up a claim
7. Elaboration: adding details; explaining further
8. Personification: A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.
Example: My teddy bear gave me a hug.
9. Idiom: an expression that is not meant to be taken literally.
Example: It’s raining cats and dogs.
10. Cliché: an expression that has been used so often that it has become common and sometimes boring.
Examples: Opposites attract. You are what you eat.
Vocabulary Week 10
- assertion: (noun) a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason
- account: (noun) 1. an oral or written description of particular event
- impact: (noun) influence; effect
- justify: (verb) to show (an act, claim, statement, etc…) to be just or right
- infer: (verb) to derive by reasoning
- optimum: (noun) the best result obtained under specific conditions
- sound: (adjective) sensible; valid; logical
- portray: (noun) to describe in words vividly
- context: (noun) the parts of a statement that come before or after a specific word
- develop: (verb) to cause to grow; to elaborate