Unit 4: Lesson 2

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  1. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
  2. characterization
    the act of describing essential features
  3. motivation
    psychological feature arousing action toward a desired goal
  4. craft
    skill in an occupation or trade
  5. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  6. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  7. voice
    something suggestive of speech as a medium of expression
  8. variety
    a category of things distinguished by a common quality
  9. punctuation
    a symbol that helps one read and understand written text
  10. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  11. syntax
    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  12. run-on sentence
    an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction
  13. independent clause
    a section in a complex sentence that can stand alone
  14. clause
    an expression including a subject and predicate
  15. root
    the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  16. disheveled
    in disarray; extremely disorderly
  17. dispel
    force to go away
  18. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  19. cajole
    influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
  20. instill
    impart gradually
  21. linger
    remain present although waning or gradually dying
  22. eloquence
    powerful and effective language
  23. evoke
    call to mind
Created on Fri Sep 11 12:07:31 EDT 2020 (updated Wed Sep 16 11:54:53 EDT 2020)

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