Unit 3: Lessons 2–3

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 7, Unit 3, Lessons 2–3.
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  1. memoir
    an account of the author's personal experiences
  2. figurative
    not literal
  3. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  4. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  5. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  6. dictionary
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  7. synonym
    a word that expresses the same or similar meaning
  8. thesaurus
    a book containing a classified list of synonyms
  9. avalanche
    a slide of large masses of snow, ice and mud down a mountain
  10. insulate
    surround with material to protect from heat, cold, or noise
  11. splinter
    break up into thin fragments
  12. ethereal
    characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
  13. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  14. form
    an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
  15. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  16. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  17. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  18. graphical
    written or drawn or engraved
  19. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
Created on Fri Sep 11 16:09:09 EDT 2020 (updated Tue Sep 15 11:38:03 EDT 2020)

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