Unit 1: Lesson 5

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 9, Unit 1, Lesson 5.
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  1. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  2. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  3. speech
    a formal spoken communication to an audience
  4. rhetorical device
    a use of language that creates a literary effect
  5. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  6. device
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve an effect
  7. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  8. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  9. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
  10. film
    a series of moving pictures that tells a story
  11. special effect
    an effect used to produce scenes that cannot be achieved by normal techniques (especially on film)
  12. generate
    bring into existence
  13. synthesize
    combine so as to form a more complex product
  14. conceive
    have the idea for
  15. detract
    take away a part from; diminish
  16. resolve
    reach a decision
  17. perish
    pass from physical life
Created on Fri Aug 28 15:22:59 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Sep 25 13:01:04 EDT 2020)

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