Unit 4: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. primary source
    a firsthand document that provides information
  2. retrospective
    concerned with or related to the past
  3. secondary source
    a work that describes or analyzes firsthand accounts
  4. dynamic
    characterized by action or forcefulness of personality
  5. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  6. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  7. omniscient
    knowing, seeing, or understanding everything
  8. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  9. static
    showing little if any change
  10. subplot
    a subordinate or secondary story in a work of fiction
Created on Fri Nov 19 14:59:43 EST 2021 (updated Mon Jan 03 10:26:59 EST 2022)

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