Unit 5: Lesson 1

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 11, Unit 5, Lesson 1.
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  1. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  2. behavior
    the way a person acts toward other people
  3. motivation
    psychological feature arousing action toward a desired goal
  4. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
  5. realism
    artistic movement that represents the world accurately
  6. naturalism
    an artistic movement emphasizing realistic description
  7. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  8. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  9. intangible
    hard to pin down or identify
  10. apprehension
    fearful expectation or anticipation
  11. panic
    an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
  12. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  13. extremity
    that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
  14. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  15. clarify
    make clear and comprehensible
  16. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  17. revise
    make changes to
  18. somewhat
    to a small degree or extent
Created on Tue Sep 01 13:43:08 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Sep 04 15:41:35 EDT 2020)

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