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study unit 986
Interpreting What You Read
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| neutral | doesn't make readers feel an emotion |
| infer | speculate, draw conclusion |
| imply | try to convince, support ,give or exchange information and ideas |
| evidence | proof, fundamental part |
| conclusion | bottom line, end |
| opinion | belief, expression |
| fact | verifiable truth; reality |
| bias | belief in one way;partially |
| complained | express sorrow |
| bargain | agreement |
| free | without charge |
| quality | characteristic; feature |
| guaranteed | pledge; promise |
| split | divide into parts; voiding an agreement |
| bitterly | with resentment |
| preliminary conclusion | one that helps you get to a final conclusion |
| vivid | producing a strong or clear impression on the sense |
| imagery | literary tool that suggest the mental picture |
| stanza | two or more lines of poetry that form one of the division of a poem |
| diverse | different; various |
| poetry | expressive rhythmic literary work |
| Emily Dickinson | an American poet born in Amherst, mass in 1830 |
| wit | clever way to get peoples attention; humor |
| metaphors | figures of speech; compares unlike things without using "like" or "as" |
| similes | likens one thing to another dissimilar thing and once meant 'resemblance; similarity; two unlike things by using like |
| rhyme | poetry in which lines end with like words |
| novellas | longer stories |
| characters | people writers invent for their stories |
| setting | scene; background |
| motives | reason; purpose |
| draughty | drafty |
| traits | characteristic |
| glimmer | small light or sparkle |
| plot | sequence of events in a story; what the story is about |
| conflict | refers to the issue to be resolved in a story |
| theme | the main point of the story; message the writer is trying to convey |
| protagonist | the main character in a story |
| tedium | boredom |
| cordon | an ornamental cord or ribbon |
| dissimulation | hiding under false appearance |
| cunningly | craftily |
| knoll | little hill |
| cove | small inlet from the sea |
| prow | front end of a boat |
| pane | refers to window pane |
| thro' | short for through |
| abbe' | member of the french clergy |
| vexed | troubled or bothered |
| sagacity | wisdom |
| hearkening | paying careful attention |
| stifled | muffled |
| welled | rose to the surface |
| dregs | refers to the tea-leaf remains at the bottom of a tea cup |
| suspend | put aside |
| anthropologist | studies the lives of primitive people |
| paleoanthropologist | refers to the study of lives of people who lived in ancient times |
| dialect | a particular pattern or way of speaking |
| sociology | the study of how people behave in groups |
| criminologist | the study of criminal behavior |
| ponder | to think about |
| perpetrator | one who commits a crime |
| pummeling | refers to the uses of fist or paws, as when a cat rises up to scratch on a tree |
| wafting | drifting |
| purported | means suppose to |
| sated | very well fed; full |
| Indecipherable | hard to find |
| Incongruous | means out-of-place |
| tipples | structures used to sort out rocks and shale from pieces of coal around coal mines |
| pawpaw | is mountain dialect for granfather |
| wry | a smile mixed humor with a bit of sarcasm |
| foist | to give something to someone who don't understand whats being given |
| burlesque | a comical spectacle |
| mania | madness |
| satire | make fun of something |
| touch him up | is an old expression for teasing someone |
| savant | a person of knowledge and wisdom |
| notorious | very well known |
| inquest | an investigation into the cause of a death |
| protracted | extending over a long period of time |
| canvasses | looked over |
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