1. OAA Vocabulary!

2. Warm-Up 24, 3-19-12  Theme: A topic of discussion or writing; It may be stated or implied. Also, it should be expressed in sentence form, not a word.  Thesis: The subject or major argument of a speech or piece of writing.  Third Person Narrative: Narration in which the point of view is that of someone outside the story who refers to all characters by name or as “he,” “she,” and “they.”

3. Warm-Up 25, 3-22-12  Tone: The reflection of an author’s attitude toward his or her subject.  Ambiguities: Statements or arguments used in a work that may have more than one meaning or interpretation. Vague comments or ideas.  Topic Sentence: A sentence intended to express the main idea in a paragraph or passage.

4. Warm-Up 26, 3-23-12  Transfer: A persuasive technique in which a product is associated with something attractive or respectable.  Transitions: Words and phrases that help explain relationships between sentences and allow a reader or writer to move from one idea to another.  Explicit: Fully or clearly expressed. Definite.

5. Warm-Up 27, 3-26-12  Fallacy: A typical error in reasoning that proves incorrect the argument in which it appears.  Homograph: A word with the same spelling as another word, whether or not pronounced alike. Ex: bow (arrow) vs. bow (part of a ship).  Homophone: A word with different origin meaning but the same pronunciation as another word, whether or not spelled alike. Ex: hair vs. hare. 00

6. Warm-Up 28, 3-28-12  Connotation: The attitudes and feelings associated with a word as opposed to a word’s literal meaning.  Denotation: The literal or “dictionary” meaning of a word.  Coherence: The quality of a piece of writing in which the ideas are clearly arranged so a reader can follow the progression from one idea to the next.

7. Warm-Up 29, 3-30-12  Cues: Hand, body, or facial gestures that communicate meaning with little or no use of language.  Symbol: A concrete thing used to suggest something larger and more abstract.  Round Character: A character who is complex and multi-dimensional.

8. Warm-Up 30, 4-2-12  Hyperbole: A figure of speech which uses deliberate exaggeration. Ex: I told you a million times!  Idiom: A combination of words that is not strictly in accordance with grammatical rules and often possesses a meaning other than its logical one. Ex: That test was a piece of cake!  Implicit: To be assumed but not directly expressed.

9. Warm-Up 31, 4-4-12  Objective: not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion.  Subjective: influenced by personal feelings. Based on emotions and opinions.   Topic: The general category or class of ideas, often stated in a word or phrase, to which the ideas of a passage as a whole belong.

10. Warm-Up 32, 4-12-12  Sensory Details: Details perceived by sight, hearing, smell, or any mode by which one perceives stimuli outside or within the body.  Sequencing: The arrangement in which things follow in a logical order or a pattern.  Anecdote: A brief narrative of an interesting, unusual, or biographical event often used to illustrate a point. A short story that is intended to make a point.

11. Warm-Up 33, 4-16-12  Allusion: A reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event.  Onomatopoeia: Words whose sounds imitate their suggested meaning. Ex: buzz, hiss, or clang.  Parody: A literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect.