Unit 4: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. precise
    characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
  2. structure
    the building of something and the arrangement of its parts
  3. improvise
    perform without preparation
  4. diagram
    a drawing intended to explain how something works
  5. persona
    an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, film, etc...
  6. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  7. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  8. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
  9. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
  10. pantomime
    a performance using gestures and movements without words
  11. verse
    literature in metrical form
  12. prose
    ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  13. poetic
    of or relating to verse, or literature in metrical form
  14. device
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve an effect
  15. internal rhyme
    a rhyme between words in the same line
  16. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  17. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
Created on Wed Nov 10 17:09:36 EST 2021 (updated Fri Nov 19 09:16:53 EST 2021)

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