Unit 2: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. proverb
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  2. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  3. characterization
    a vivid verbal description
  4. epigraph
    a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
  5. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
  6. folktale
    a traditional story or legend circulated by word of mouth
  7. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  8. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  9. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  10. tragic
    of or relating to a drama with an unhappy ending
  11. hero
    the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
Created on Fri Nov 19 17:06:10 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 05 15:14:02 EST 2022)

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