Springboard Unit 1 Literary/Academic Vocab

Ms. Jackson (United States of America)
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  1. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  2. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  3. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  4. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  5. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  6. characterization
    the act of describing essential features
  7. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  8. plot
    a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
  9. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  10. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  11. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  12. effective
    producing or capable of producing an intended result
  13. consequence
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  14. coherence
    the state of sticking together
  15. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  16. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  17. objective
    the goal intended to be attained
  18. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  19. draft
    make a blueprint of
  20. revise
    make changes to
  21. edit
    prepare for publication or presentation by revising
  22. publish
    prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
  23. figurative
    not literal
Created on Tue Jul 25 12:01:26 EDT 2017

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