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Language Arts Crap
SUMMER WORK PLZZZZZ
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
| Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
| Analyze | Discover or reveal something through such examination. |
| Anticipate | Guess or be aware of what will happen and take action in order to be prepared. |
| Assonance | Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words. |
| Beneficial | Favorable or advantageous; resulting in good |
| Chronological | A record of several events starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred |
| Compare | Estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between. |
| Connotation | The extra tinge or taint of meaning each word carries beyond the minimal, strict definition found in a dictionary. |
| Consonance | A special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in the intervening vowels. |
| Context | The parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning |
| Contrast | The state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in close association to the thing. |
| Debate | An argument about a particular subject, esp. one in which many people are involved |
| Denotation | The minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary, disregarding any historical or emotional connotation. |
| Describe | Give an account in words of someone or something, including all the relevant characteristics, qualities, or events |
| Elaborate | Involving many carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning |
| Epitome | A person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type |
| Evaluate | Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess |
| Explain | Make an idea, situation, or problem clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas. |
| Fact | A thing that is indisputably the case. |
| Formulate | Create or devise methodically a strategy or a proposal |
| Hazardous | Risky; dangerous |
| Idiom | A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words |
| Illustrious | Well known, respected, and admired for past achievements |
| Infer | Deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements |
| Judicious | Having, showing, or done with good judgment or sense |
| Literal | Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory |
| Manipulate | Control or influence a person or situation cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable |
| Monotonous | Dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest |
| Omniscient | Knowing everything |
| Onomatopoeia | The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
| Opinion | A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge |
| Optimist | A person disposed to take a favorable view of things |
| Paradox | A statement or proposition that, despite sound or apparently sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self |
| Paraphrase | To express the meaning of the writer or speaker or something written or spoken using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity. |
| Plot | Secretly make plans to carry out an illegal or harmful action OR the sequence of events in a story |
| Predict | Say or estimate that a specified thing will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something |
| Rigorous | Extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. |
| Summarize | Give a brief statement of the main points of something |
| Support | Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up OR give comfort and emotional help to OR Be capable of fulfilling a role adequately |
| Synopsis | A brief summary or general survey of something |
| Synthesize | Combine a number of things into a coherent whole |
| Theme | The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic |
| Trace | Copy a drawing, map, or design by drawing over its lines on a superimposed piece of transparent paper |
| Utopia | An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. |
| Veracity | Conformity to facts; accuracy |
| Verbatim | In exactly the same words as were used originally |
| Vital | Absolutely necessary or important; essential |
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