OGT Vocab. Set #1
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Coldwel on February 24, 2011
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gaining meaning from written words
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Concrete image | Words that induce readers to call up "pictures" in their minds by appealing to their senses of taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight. |
| Connotation | The attitudes and feelings associated with a word as opposed to a word's literal meaning. |
| Imagery | Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for a reader. |
| Dialect | A form of language as it is spoken in a particular geographical area or by a particular social or ethnic group. |
| Symbol | A concrete thing used to suggest something larger and more abstract. |
| Denotation | The literal or "dictionary" meaning of a word. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things (e.g., he's a tiger). |
| Figurative language | Language enriched by word images and figures of speech. |
| Figurative meaning | A symbolic interpretation of a written work. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects or ideas (for example, a happy house). |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech which uses a deliberate exaggeration (for example, I have told you a million times). |
| Idiom | A figure of speech that is not meant to be taken literally (for example, it rained cats and dogs). |
| Literal meaning | The actual meaning of a word or phrase. |
| Implicit | To be assumed but not directly expressed. |
| Analogy | A method of explaining something unfamiliar by using a comparison of similar, more familiar things; a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects. |
| Explicit | Fully or clearly expressed; definite. |
| Context clues | Information a reader may obtain from a text that helps confirm the meaning of a word or group of words. |
| Hypothesize | To make an assertion about something assumed but not positively known. |
| Definitional footnote | A reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page. |
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