Unit 1: Lesson 2–3

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 7, Unit 1, Lesson 2–3.
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  1. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  2. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  3. infer
    solve by guessing
  4. comma
    a punctuation mark (,) indicating the separation of elements
  5. coordinate
    of equal importance, rank, or degree
  6. adjective
    a word that expresses an attribute of something
  7. root
    the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  8. moderate
    being within reasonable or average limits
  9. prowess
    a superior skill learned by study and practice
  10. frantically
    in an uncontrolled manner
  11. anxiety
    a vague unpleasant emotion in anticipation of a misfortune
  12. poetry
    literature in metrical form
  13. form
    an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
  14. line
    a row of text written across a page or computer screen
  15. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  16. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  17. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  18. device
    something in an artistic work designed to achieve an effect
  19. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  20. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  21. punctuation
    a symbol that helps one read and understand written text
Created on Fri Sep 11 14:28:31 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Sep 14 15:00:01 EDT 2020)

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