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August Vocabulary. Monday, August 6, 2012. analyze: to separate into parts for close study; examine and explain. cite: to use the words of someone else; quote multimedia: the combination of sound, still pictures, and video argument: a reason in favor of or against something.
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Monday, August 6, 2012 analyze: to separate into parts for close study; examine and explain. cite: to use the words of someone else; quote multimedia: the combination of sound, still pictures, and video argument: a reason in favor of or against something.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 • cohesion: to be connected by reason; be consistent. • collaborate: to cooperate or work with someone else, esp. on an artistic or intellectual project • credibility: the quality of being believable, or the power to cause others to believe. • delineate: to describe or portray in precise or vivid detail
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 • salient:extremely noticeable or prominent • coherent:logically ordered or connected; consistent • nuances:a subtle quality or difference in tone, meaning, color, or the like; shade. • conventions:a practice or way of doing something that is accepted by most people
Monday, August 13 • metaphor: a comparison of 2 things without using like or as, may say one thing and mean another • onomatopoeia: words that are spelled like the sounds they make • conflict: the internal or external problem in a story • oxymoron: an oxymoron is basically a phrase that has 2 words that would contradict each other, or just don't seem they should go together, such as "jumbo" and "shrimp.”
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 • simile: comparing two uncommon things with the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ • alliteration: words in a sentence that begin with the same consonant sound • irony: a contradiction between what you think will happen and what actually happens. • protagonist: the leading character in a literary work
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 • imagery: language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. • dialogue: a talk between two or more people or between characters in a play, film, or novel; quotation marks will be used. • narrator: a person or character who tells a story • climax: The top of Freytag’s Pyramid, the point at which a conflict reaches a crisis in a work of literature
Monday, August 20, 2012 • point of view: The vantage point from which the story is told. • suspense: a feeling of growing tension or excitement. • mood: a feeling in a literary work. • characterization: the techniques a writer uses to create a character
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 • antagonist: A character or force in conflict with the main character • setting: The time and place of the action in a story • -ology: a suffix that means "the science or study of." • paleontology: the science that studies animal and plant fossils for information about life in the past.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 • theme: The central message in a literary work • tone: It expresses the writer’s attitude toward his/her subject. • fossil: the remains or trace of a living animal or plant from a long time ago. Fossils are found embedded in earth or rock. • artifact: any object made by human beings