Unit 1: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. concise
    expressing much in few words
  2. nuance
    a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
  3. function
    what something is used for
  4. negation
    a statement that is a refusal or denial of another statement
  5. coherence
    logical, orderly, and consistent relation of parts
  6. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  7. pace
    the relative speed of progress or change
  8. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  9. point of view
    the perspective from which a story is told
  10. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  11. mnemonic
    of or relating to the practice of aiding the memory
  12. device
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve an effect
  13. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  14. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  15. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  16. connotation
    the internal content of a term or concept
  17. allegory
    a short moral story
Created on Fri Nov 12 13:07:47 EST 2021 (updated Wed Dec 01 08:29:06 EST 2021)

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