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Kite vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Third person limited | the narrator focuses on only one person throughout the entire story |
| Third person omniscient | the narrator focuses on all the characters throughout the story |
| Phrase | a word or group of words that make sense |
| Transitional/transition phrase | a word or group of words that connect two ideas in writing |
| central theme | overarching idea of a written text/passage |
| central idea | the main idea of a text or passage |
| revision/revised | revision is when you are doing the action of revising and revised means the revision already happened |
| formal vs. informal tone | Formal tone is profesional, objective and precise. Informal tone is in a conversational format, personal, and sometimes uses slang. |
| objective summary | a concise version of a text, but it had no opinion |
| precise/concise | precise is to be exact and concise is to be direct with the main point |
| conclusion | the end of a text or an inference |
| claim vs. counterclaim | a claim ia an argument and a counterclaim is a opposing viewpoint |
| perspective | yours or someone's opinion or interpretation |
| point of view | the person who is telling the story |
| primary purpose | the main reason of why a certain text was written |
| relevant vs irrelevant | to be relevant is too be applicable and irrelevant is to not be applicable |
| primary or primarily | the main something or the center of what is going on |
| connotation | the emotion or the idea that goes along with the meaning of a word. |
| emphasis | special importance, or value that's given to something |
| contribute | to help to cause or bring about |
| inference/infer/inferred | a conclusion reached by the basis of evidence and reasoning |
| omit/omission | to exclude or leave something out |
| analogy | an extended metaphor |
| allusion | a refrence |
| antonym | th oppisite |
| synonym | the same |
| interrogative | a question or to integrate someone |
| indicative | a statement |
| subjunctive | a wish |
| imperative | a command |
| conditional | under the right condition, blank will happen |
| stanza | a paragraph in poetry |
| dialogue | a conversation |
| ellipsis | a pause, list or omission of information in a text |
| maintain focus | to keep a person's attention |
| acknowledging an opposing viewpoint | to identify a person's counterpoint, later disproving it |