week 32

Provides

Gives

Refine

Remove unwanted elements, improve by making small changes

Encounter

Unexpectedly experience or be faced with something; find

Accomplishments

Things a person can do well, typically as a result of study or practice

Usage

Habitual or customary practice, the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly spoken or written

Emphasize

To give special importance or prominence to something in speaking or writing, make something more clearly defined

Significant / significance

Important / importance

Achievement

Something someone has done or accomplished

Bias

A leaning in favor of or against someone or something

Stanza

A group of lines in a poem

Theme

The message or lesson about life conveyed in a work of literature

Mood

The feeling that a literary work conveys to readers, such as sadness, excitement, or anger

Tone

The author’s attitude toward his/her subject in a piece of writing, positive, negative, or neutral

Central Idea

The most important idea that a writer wishes to express, might be the important idea of an entire work or the important thought in a single paragraph

Evidence

Textual “proof” to support a central idea, can be a direct quotation or a paraphrase from the text

Denotation

The dictionary definition of a word

Connotation

The emotions associated with a word, for example, "Dangerous" = negative connotation; "Celebration" = positive connotation