Unit 3: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. subordinate
    (of a clause) unable to stand alone as a complete sentence
  2. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  3. interpret
    make sense of; assign a meaning to
  4. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  5. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  6. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  7. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  8. foreshadow
    indicate by signs
  9. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  10. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
Created on Wed Jan 06 10:19:32 EST 2021 (updated Mon Jan 11 11:02:59 EST 2021)

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