Academic Vocabulary for SUSPENSE

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  1. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  2. ambiguity
    unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
  3. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  4. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  5. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  6. anthology
    a collection of selected literary passages
  7. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  8. image
    a visual representation produced on a surface
  9. incite
    provoke or stir up
  10. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  11. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
  12. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  13. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  14. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
Created on Wed Oct 09 08:25:01 EDT 2019

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