Vocabulary and Key Concepts Quiz

Vocabulary and Key Concepts

• Central Idea: The main point an author conveys about a topic; synonymous with the main idea.

• Supporting Details: Facts, examples, and reasons that elaborate on the central idea; include at least three details when providing support.

• Summary: A concise restatement of an article's main points and important details in the writer's own words; includes characters, setting, main events, conflicts, and resolutions.

• Objective: An approach that is devoid of personal opinions or biases; strictly factual.

• Analyze: The process of examining components of a text to understand how they function together.

• Explicitly: Engaging with material directly and thoroughly, avoiding skimming.

• Inference: A logical deduction based on textual evidence combined with prior knowledge; for example, anticipating a two-hour delay due to circumstances.

• Influence: The capacity to affect another person or situation positively or negatively.

• Interactions: Direct outcomes of how various factors affect one another; exemplified by the collective influences on the Wright brothers leading to the invention of the airplane.

• Analysis: A thorough examination of the interplay of different parts in a narrative, such as setting, plot, and characters.

• Explicit: Clearly stated details; for example, a timetable that specifies an event's start time definitively.

• Story Elements: Essential components of a narrative, including the setting, plot, and characters.

• Conflict: A central issue or problem that occurs within a story.

• Resolution: The method by which a narrative’s conflict is addressed or settled.

• Theme: The overarching message or central idea conveyed in a text; often synonymous with the central idea.

• Technical Meaning: Specific language employed by authors in scientific, mathematical, or engineering contexts to express precise ideas, such as "ovipositor."

• Connotative Meaning: Words chosen by authors that evoke specific feelings or ideas beyond their literal meaning; for example, phrasing that communicates aggression or urgency.

• Figurative Meaning: Creative expressions used in language to convey unusual or imaginative ideas; examples include metaphors or similes.

• Text Structure: The organization of an author's ideas, with various formats like chronological order, problem-solution, cause-effect, and compare-contrast.

• Author's Purpose: The primary reason an author writes an article, which can include to persuade, inform, entertain, or describe.

Literary Techniques

• Repetition: The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, or lines that create rhythm in poetry; includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, and rhyme.

• Stanza: A grouped set of lines in a poem, functioning similarly to a paragraph in prose.