Unit 5: Lesson 2

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 11, Unit 5, Lesson 2.
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  1. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  2. humor
    the quality of being funny
  3. exaggeration
    the act of making something more noticeable than usual
  4. absurdity
    the state or quality of being ridiculous
  5. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  6. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  7. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  8. syntax
    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  9. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  10. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  11. disposition
    your usual mood
  12. caliber
    a degree or grade of excellence or worth
  13. transition
    an event that results in a transformation
  14. atrocious
    shockingly brutal or cruel
Created on Tue Sep 01 13:44:09 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Sep 10 12:41:19 EDT 2020)

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