Unit 1: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  2. effective
    producing or capable of producing an intended result
  3. coherence
    logical, orderly, and consistent relation of parts
  4. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  5. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  6. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  7. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  8. figurative
    not literal
  9. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  10. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  11. characterization
    a vivid verbal description
  12. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  13. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  14. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
Created on Wed Jan 06 10:17:29 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 15:10:47 EST 2021)

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