Unit 4: Lessons 2–3

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 10, Unit 4, Lessons 2–3.
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  1. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  2. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  3. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  4. slant rhyme
    imperfect correspondence between the sounds of words
  5. eye rhyme
    an imperfect rhyme (e.g., 'love' and 'move')
  6. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  7. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
  8. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  9. syntax
    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  10. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  11. voice
    expressing in coherent verbal form
  12. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  13. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  14. irrefutable
    impossible to deny or disprove
  15. insidious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  16. atrophy
    undergo weakening or degeneration as through lack of use
  17. contemptuous
    expressing extreme scorn
  18. occult
    hidden and difficult to see
Created on Mon Aug 31 14:53:56 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Apr 05 16:12:15 EDT 2021)

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