Unit 3: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  2. plagiarism
    taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
  3. parenthetical
    expression in punctuation marks enclosing textual material
  4. citation
    a short note recognizing a source of information
  5. valid
    well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force
  6. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  7. bibliography
    a list of writings with time and place of publication
  8. annotate
    add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
  9. evaluate
    judge; form a critical opinion of
  10. censor
    subject to deletion on political or moral grounds
  11. censorship
    deleting parts of publications or theatrical performances
  12. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  13. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  14. plot
    the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
  15. static
    showing little if any change
  16. dynamic
    characterized by action or forcefulness of personality
Created on Tue Jan 12 08:54:33 EST 2021 (updated Tue Jan 12 13:27:39 EST 2021)

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