Unit 2: Lesson 4

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 8, Unit 2, Lesson 4.
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  1. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  2. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  3. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
  4. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  5. infer
    solve by guessing
  6. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  7. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  8. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  9. credibility
    the quality of being believable or trustworthy
  10. root
    the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  11. film
    a series of moving pictures that tells a story
  12. closeup
    a photograph or video that is zoomed in on its subject
  13. lighting
    apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
  14. filter
    device that removes something from what passes through it
  15. sound effect
    an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play
  16. music
    the sounds produced by singers or instruments
  17. peril
    a state of danger involving risk
  18. grimace
    a contorted facial expression
  19. credulity
    tendency to believe readily
  20. compensation
    something given or received as payment or reparation
  21. condole
    express one's sympathy on the occasion of someone's death
  22. fate
    the ultimate agency predetermining the course of events
  23. prosaic
    not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
  24. resignation
    acceptance of an unpleasant but inevitable situation
Created on Fri Sep 11 11:23:08 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Sep 25 12:59:13 EDT 2020)

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