Unit 4: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms, Unit 4

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  1. justice
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  2. criterion
    the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
  3. advance
    move forward
  4. characterization
    a vivid verbal description
  5. sketch
    a brief literary description
  6. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
  7. oral
    using speech rather than writing
  8. stage direction
    instruction or description written in the script of a play
  9. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  10. dynamic
    characterized by action or forcefulness of personality
  11. static
    showing little if any change
  12. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
Created on Thu Jan 14 16:09:57 EST 2021 (updated Tue Jan 19 09:54:12 EST 2021)

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