Unit 1: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. defend
    argue or speak in justification of
  2. challenge
    questioning a statement and demanding an explanation
  3. qualify
    make more specific
  4. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  5. concession
    a point that is yielded
  6. refutation
    the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
  7. exemplify
    clarify by giving an illustration of
  8. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  9. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  10. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
Created on Thu Jan 21 10:38:14 EST 2021 (updated Tue Jan 26 08:48:38 EST 2021)

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