Unit 2: Lessons 2–3

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 8, Unit 2, Lessons 2–3.
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  1. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  2. point of view
    the perspective from which a story is told
  3. first person
    narration from the point of view of the speaker or narrator
  4. third person
    narration from the point of view of those being described
  5. unreliable
    not worthy of trust
  6. suspense
    excited anticipation of an approaching climax
  7. biased
    favoring one person or side over another
  8. dictionary
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  9. etymology
    a history of a word
  10. conceive
    have the idea for
  11. stifled
    held in check or kept back with difficulty
  12. audacity
    fearless daring
  13. derision
    contemptuous laughter
  14. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
  15. crevice
    a long narrow opening
  16. vehemently
    in a forceful manner
  17. hypocritical
    professing feelings or virtues one does not have
  18. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  19. connection
    a relation between things or events
  20. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  21. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
  22. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
Created on Fri Sep 11 11:21:03 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Jun 21 09:47:11 EDT 2021)

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