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