English 10 Vocabulary Review

Review: What is a “text”? What is an essay? What is a novel? What is a book?

What do you call the voice and personality that narrates a story or poem, or delivers the ideas in an essay?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate vocabulary word: Even though she didn’t state it directly, we expected to see her because she _________________ that she would be coming to the party.

What do you call a brief summary that includes a short analysis of a text as well as the main ideas?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate vocabulary word: The sizes of car tires have to be ____________ so they can fit on many different kinds of cars.

What does the Latin word root “stereo” mean?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate vocabulary word: If you don’t develop good habits when it comes to money, unwise spending _____________________ you.

Which word would you use to describe the effect an author wants their writing to have on the audience?

What do you call the historical or personal events that happen in the real world and the author’s life when the text is written?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate vocabulary word: You _______________ when you say that all dogs like to play with Frisbees.

Which word would you use to describe the attitude or mood of the speaker in a text?

Fill in the blank with the appropriate vocabulary word: Our opener today asked you to compare and contrast emotional and _____________ thinking.

What are we trying to describe when we analyze the audience of a text?