Unit 6: Lessons 9–10

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 11, Unit 6, Lessons 9–10.
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  1. autobiographical
    relating to or in the style of an account of one's own life
  2. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  3. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
  4. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  5. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  6. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  7. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  8. figurative
    not literal
  9. synonym
    a word that expresses the same or similar meaning
  10. antonym
    a word that expresses an opposite meaning
  11. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  12. extenuating
    partially excusing or justifying
  13. exclusively
    without any others being included or involved
  14. timid
    showing fear and lack of courage
  15. pigmentation
    coloration of living tissues
  16. specter
    a ghostly appearing figure
  17. circumlocution
    a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
  18. narcotic
    inducing stupor or narcosis
  19. miscellany
    a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
  20. subservience
    abject or cringing submissiveness
  21. contrived
    showing effects of planning or manipulation
  22. sentiment
    a personal belief or judgment
  23. infraction
    a violation of a law or rule
  24. ferry
    transport from one place to another
  25. conceivable
    capable of being imagined
  26. segregated
    separated or isolated from others or a main group
  27. conventional
    following accepted customs and proprieties
  28. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  29. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  30. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
Created on Tue Sep 01 15:48:29 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Sep 25 13:05:17 EDT 2020)

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