Unit 4: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. complementary
    serving to fill out, enhance, or supply what is lacking
  2. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  3. interpretation
    the act of expressing something in an artistic performance
  4. oral
    using speech rather than writing
  5. elaborate
    add details to clarify an idea
  6. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
  7. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  8. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  9. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  10. cacophonous
    having an unpleasant sound
  11. euphonious
    having a pleasant sound
  12. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  13. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  14. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  15. quatrain
    a stanza of four lines
  16. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  17. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  18. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
Created on Tue Jan 12 09:17:24 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 13 09:22:26 EST 2021)

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