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GeorgiaEnglish Literature

Vocabulary and Language

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you read figurative and connotative word meaning, telling a word's literal denotation from its emotional connotation, and interpreting idioms and figures of speech in context?

How do a writer's language choices, formality, sentence style, and word choice, create tone and voice, and how do you analyze and control register for purpose and audience?

How do you work out the meaning of an unfamiliar or multiple-meaning word from the context of the passage rather than guessing or relying only on a dictionary definition?

How do you use Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes to work out an unfamiliar word, and how do you reason about word relationships such as synonyms, antonyms, and analogies?