LA gr 8 academic vocab

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  1. allegory
    a short moral story
  2. allude
    make an indirect reference to
  3. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  4. annotation
    the act of adding notes
  5. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  6. attribute
    a quality belonging to or characteristic of an entity
  7. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  8. cross-reference
    a mention in one place in a work to information in another place of the same work
  9. deductive
    relating to reasoning from the general to the particular
  10. denouement
    the outcome of a complex sequence of events
  11. derivation
    the source or origin from which something comes
  12. elaborate
    marked by complexity and richness of detail
  13. excerpt
    a passage selected from a larger work
  14. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
  15. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  16. generalization
    the process of abstracting common properties of instances
  17. implication
    something that is inferred
  18. inductive
    influencing or causing to arise
  19. reasoning
    thinking that is organized and logical
  20. internal
    located inward
  21. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  22. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  23. jargon
    technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  24. preface
    a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
  25. sarcasm
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  26. target
    a reference point to shoot at
  27. audience
    a gathering of spectators or listeners at a performance
  28. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  29. statement
    the act of affirming or asserting something
  30. vignette
    a brief literary description
  31. plot
    a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
Created on Thu Dec 31 11:11:02 EST 2009

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