Unit 1: Lessons 2–3

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 12, Unit 1, Lessons 2–3.
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  1. frame
    enclose in a surrounding structure, as of a picture
  2. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  3. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  4. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  5. preamble
    a preliminary introduction, as to a statute or constitution
  6. virtue
    the quality of doing what is right
  7. sovereignty
    government free from external control
  8. bequeath
    leave or give, especially by will after one's death
  9. rebuke
    censure severely or angrily
  10. romance
    a story dealing with love
  11. conflict
    opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces
  12. prediction
    a statement made about the future
  13. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  14. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  15. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  16. dominion
    control or power through legal authority
  17. incumbent
    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
  18. redress
    act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
  19. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
  20. guile
    shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
Created on Wed Sep 02 10:35:38 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Sep 10 14:08:55 EDT 2020)

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