Academic English Vocabulary 1-111

When the verb of a sentence is in the active voice, the subject is doing the acting. Example: "The tornado ravaged the town."

• Active Voice

• Figurative Language

• Soliloquy

• Summary

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CCSS.L.9-10.1

A type of story with a symbolic or double meaning.

• Allegory

• Compare/Contrast

• Epic

• Summary

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Alliteration

• Dramatic Irony

• Paradox

• Argumentative Essay

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

An indirect reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, religion, mythology, politics, sport, science, pop culture.

• Allusion

• Slant Rhyme

• Delineate

• Genre

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Something (often an object) that is out of place or time.

• Anachronism

• Ethos

• Explicate

• Paradox

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based such as in degree, alikeness, function, etc.

• Analogy

• Explicate

• Research

• Logos

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

To examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of.

• Analyze

• Syntactic Variety/Syntax

• Nonfiction

• Slant Rhyme

To supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes.

• Annotate

• Slant rhyme

• Repetition

• Voice

A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.

• Antagonist

• Summary

• Counterclaim

• Symbols/Symbolism

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A word opposite in meaning from another.

• Antonym

• Excerpt

• Transitions

• Flashback

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CCSS.L.9-10.4