Unit 3: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. reliability
    the quality of being dependable
  2. validity
    the quality of having legal force or effectiveness
  3. plagiarism
    taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
  4. annotate
    add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
  5. bibliography
    a list of writings with time and place of publication
  6. proverb
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  7. folktale
    a traditional story or legend circulated by word of mouth
  8. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  9. epigraph
    a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
  10. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  11. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
  12. characterization
    a vivid verbal description
  13. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  14. tragic
    of or relating to a drama with an unhappy ending
  15. hamartia
    the character flaw or error of a tragic hero
  16. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  17. dramatic irony
    when the audience understands something the characters don't
Created on Thu Jan 14 16:03:59 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 20 09:19:56 EST 2021)

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