LA gr 6 academic vocab

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  1. affix
    attach to
  2. analyze
    break down into components or essential features
  3. antagonist
    someone who offers opposition
  4. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  5. appositive
    relating to or being in apposition
  6. clause
    a separate section of a legal document
  7. convention
    the act of meeting formally
  8. criticism
    a serious examination and judgment of something
  9. end-rhymed
    rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
  10. evaluate
    estimate the nature, quality, ability or significance of
  11. exposition
    a collection of things for public display
  12. footnote
    a printed comment placed below the main text on a page
  13. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  14. homophone
    a word pronounced the same with another meaning or spelling
  15. interpretation
    the act of expressing something in an artistic performance
  16. irrelevant
    having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
  17. modifier
    a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
  18. narration
    giving an account describing a course of events
  19. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
  20. summarize
    briefly present the main points of something
  21. passage
    the act of moving from one state or place to the next
  22. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  23. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  24. resolution
    a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
  25. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  26. synthesize
    combine and form a complex whole
  27. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  28. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
Created on Thu Dec 31 11:06:50 EST 2009

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