Unit 3: Lesson 5

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 11, Unit 3, Lesson 5.
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  1. informational
    relating to or conveying facts and knowledge
  2. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  3. summarize
    briefly present the main points of something
  4. craft
    skill in an occupation or trade
  5. rhetorical question
    an inquiry that is not supposed to be answered
  6. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  7. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  8. figure of speech
    language used in a nonliteral sense
  9. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  10. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  11. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  12. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  13. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  14. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  15. unfathomed
    situated at or extending to great depth
  16. perturbation
    an unhappy and worried mental state
  17. polarity
    a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies
  18. abstraction
    a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
  19. codify
    organize into a system, such as a body of law
  20. remunerative
    producing a sizeable profit
  21. configuration
    an arrangement of parts or elements
Created on Tue Sep 01 11:13:58 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Sep 10 11:56:17 EDT 2020)

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