Unit 6: Lessons 4–5

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 12, Unit 6, Lessons 4–5.
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  1. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  2. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
  3. prediction
    a statement made about the future
  4. syntax
    the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  5. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
  6. balmy
    mild and pleasant
  7. lofty
    having or displaying great dignity or nobility
  8. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  9. impeccable
    without error or flaw
  10. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
  11. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  12. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  13. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  14. foot
    a group of syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
  15. iamb
    a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
  16. trochee
    a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables
  17. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  18. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  19. free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
Created on Wed Sep 02 14:12:30 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Sep 10 14:34:03 EDT 2020)

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