Unit 1: Lesson 5

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 11, Unit 1, Lesson 5.
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  1. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  2. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  3. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  4. message
    what a communication that is about something is about
  5. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  6. rhetorical device
    a use of language that creates a literary effect
  7. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  8. device
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve an effect
  9. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  10. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  11. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  12. infer
    reason by deduction; establish by deduction
  13. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  14. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  15. specialized
    developed or designed for a particular activity or function
  16. patent
    an official document granting a right or privilege
  17. cleave
    stick or hold together and resist separation
  18. calamity
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  19. sundry
    consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
  20. diverse
    many and different
  21. project
    communicate vividly
  22. settlement
    a community of people smaller than a town
  23. regimen
    a systematic plan for therapy
  24. defection
    the state of having rejected a cause
  25. stoic
    seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Created on Tue Sep 01 09:58:06 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Sep 25 13:04:07 EDT 2020)

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