Unit 3: Lesson 5

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  1. linear
    involving a single dimension
  2. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  3. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  4. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  5. subplot
    a subordinate or secondary story in a work of fiction
  6. characterization
    the act of describing essential features
  7. context
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation
  8. definition
    a brief explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase
  9. restatement
    a revised statement
  10. example
    an item of information that is typical of a class or group
  11. comparison
    the act of examining resemblances
  12. contrast
    the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
  13. cause
    events that provide the generative force of something
  14. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  15. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  16. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
  17. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  18. voice
    the sound made when a person speaks
  19. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  20. syntax
    the study of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  21. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  22. prosody
    the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
  23. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  24. synthesize
    combine and form a complex whole
  25. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  26. knack
    a special way of doing something
  27. skeptic
    someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs
  28. scam
    a fraudulent business scheme
  29. insistent
    demanding attention
Created on Fri Aug 28 16:13:07 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Apr 05 15:57:41 EDT 2021)

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