Unit 4: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. source
    a document from which information is obtained
  2. bibliography
    a list of writings with time and place of publication
  3. evaluate
    judge; form a critical opinion of
  4. annotate
    add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
  5. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  6. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  7. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  8. tableau
    a group of people attractively arranged
  9. limerick
    a humorous rhymed verse form of five lines
  10. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  11. oral
    using speech rather than writing
  12. inflection
    the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  13. rate
    the relative speed of progress or change
  14. drama
    a work intended for performance by actors on a stage
  15. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  16. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
Created on Tue Jan 05 12:33:34 EST 2021 (updated Tue Jan 05 17:12:21 EST 2021)

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