week 32
Week 32 Vocabulary List
Provides - gives
Refine - remove unwanted elements, improve (something) 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
before/after *watch for these in your questions
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/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 (Me) 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. It 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. Evidence can be a direct quotation or a paraphrase (put info into your own words) from the text.
Denotation: the dictionary definition of a word
Connotation: the emotions associated with a word. Ex. Dangerous = negative connotation; Celebration = positive connotation
Week 32 Vocabulary List
Provides - gives
Refine - remove unwanted elements, improve (something) 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
before/after *watch for these in your questions
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/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 (Me) 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. It 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. Evidence can be a direct quotation or a paraphrase (put info into your own words) from the text.
Denotation: the dictionary definition of a word
Connotation: the emotions associated with a word. Ex. Dangerous = negative connotation; Celebration = positive connotation
