Unit 4: Academic Vocabulary, Literary Terms, and Vocabulary from Readings 1

This list covers Academic Vocabulary, Literary Terms, and "Where I Lived and What I Lived For."
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  1. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  2. convention
    something regarded as a normative example
  3. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  4. epigraph
    a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
  5. coherence
    logical, orderly, and consistent relation of parts
  6. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  7. saturate
    infuse or fill completely
    The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.
  8. exude
    release in drops or small quantities
    The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.
  9. requiem
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
    It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.
  10. somnolence
    a very sleepy state
    Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.
  11. sublime
    of high moral or intellectual value
    I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
  12. sleeper
    one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway
    If we do not get out sleepers, and forge rails and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads?
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