Sunday, January 9, 2011

Academic Language Terms

Please use these academic langauge terms in your upcoming timed essay where appropriate.  Please review any of the terms that you are not familiar with.  The reader's of your college placement essays will be looking to see that you can use academic language appropriately!
Abstract
Allusion
Analogy
Analysis
Anecdote
Argument
Audience
Cliché
Coherence
Colloquial Expression
Conclusion
Concrete
Connotation
Denotation
Diction
Dialect, Slang, Archaism, and Pretentious Diction
Effect
Periodic Sentence and Cumulative (Loose) Sentence; Interrupted and Balanced Sentence
Repetition
Euphemism
Evaluation
Evidence
Example
Exposition
Fallacy
Figure of Speech: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Understatement, Hyperbole, Paradox
Flashback
Imagery
Inference
Irony
Jargon
Narration
Parallelism
Paraphrase
Person
Persuasion
Point of View
Premise
Purpose

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