Late work

Language

A
Applicant- A person who makes a formal application for something, typically a job.
Antecedent- Preceding in time or order; previous or preexisting; A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another.
Assonance- Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Absolute Phrase- A group of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole
Alternative-Available as another possibility;One of two or more available possibilities.

B
Bracket- Your own words in a quote.


C
Chronological Order- Chronological order presents ideas according to the time in which they occurred. This type of organization is especially effective if you are describing a process, relaying a series of actions, or telling a story. For instance, to convey the plot of a novel or the procedures of an experiment, you would tell readers what happened first, second, etc.


D
Dependant Clause- A group of words that has both a subject and a verb but (unlike an independent clause cannot stand alone as a sentence. Also known as a subordinate clause.

E
Expository Text- An expository text sets out to describe objects, events or processes in an objective manner, present or convey an argument, to state the solution to a problem or to explain a situation.
Exposition- A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.

Reading

A
Anthropology- The study of humankind, in particular.
Assonance- In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

B
Bias- Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
Bibliography- A list of the books referred to in a scholarly work, usually printed as an appendix.

C
Connotation-  the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes.
Characterization- the method used by a writer to develop a character.

D
Diction- style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.

E
Ellegy- mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
Exposition- background information on the characters and setting.

F
Foreshadowing- a literary device in which an author suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story.