Unit 2: Academic Vocabulary and Literary Terms

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  1. subtext
    a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
  2. enfranchisement
    a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
  3. patriarchal
    of a social organization with the male as the head
  4. archetype
    something that serves as a model
  5. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  6. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  7. satire
    a literary genre that uses humor to ridicule human failings and vices
  8. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  9. convention
    something regarded as a normative example
  10. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  11. license
    freedom to deviate deliberately from rules or practices
  12. Marxist
    following the ideas of Marx and Engels
  13. feminist
    of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women
  14. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
Created on Thu Jan 28 09:00:02 EST 2021 (updated Tue Feb 02 12:31:52 EST 2021)

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