Unit 2: Additional Literary Terms

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  1. explanation
    a statement that makes something comprehensible
  2. fact
    a piece of information about events that have occurred
  3. opinion
    a personal belief or judgment
  4. appeal
    attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
  5. authority
    an expert whose views are taken as definitive
  6. emotion
    any strong feeling
  7. reason
    a logical motive for a belief or action
  8. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  9. fiction
    a literary work based on the imagination
  10. origin
    the source of something's existence or from which it derives
  11. etymology
    a history of a word
  12. mythology
    the body of stories associated with a culture or institution
  13. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  14. statistic
    a datum that can be represented numerically
  15. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  16. quotation
    a passage or expression that is cited
  17. example
    an item of information that is typical of a class or group
  18. autobiography
    a book or account of your own life
  19. expository
    serving to expound or set forth
  20. informal
    not in accord with established conventions and requirements
  21. biography
    an account of the series of events making up a person's life
  22. annotate
    add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
Created on Fri Feb 05 12:30:53 EST 2021 (updated Fri Feb 12 14:27:45 EST 2021)

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