Unit 2: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. enfranchisement
    a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
  2. faux pas
    a socially awkward or tactless act
  3. patriarchal
    of a social organization with the male as the head
  4. subtext
    a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
  5. criticism
    a written evaluation of a serious written work
  6. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  7. feminist
    a supporter of equal rights for women
  8. Marxist
    advocate of the economic and political theories of Karl Marx
  9. mise en scene
    an arrangement that shows where a play or film takes place
  10. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  11. satire
    a literary genre that uses humor to ridicule human failings and vices
  12. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  13. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  14. subplot
    a subordinate or secondary story in a work of fiction
Created on Tue Nov 30 13:35:27 EST 2021 (updated Thu Jan 20 13:42:32 EST 2022)

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