Unit 5: Academic Vocabulary, Literary Terms, and Vocabulary from Readings

This list covers Academic Vocabulary, Literary Terms, and "Comments on The Arrival."
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  1. culture
    all the knowledge and values shared by a society
  2. variable
    something that is likely to change
  3. structure
    the complex composition of knowledge as elements
  4. panel
    sheet that forms a distinct section of something
  5. foreground
    the part of a scene that is near the viewer
  6. background
    the part of a scene behind objects in the front
  7. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  8. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  9. monologue
    a long utterance by one person
  10. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  11. saturate
    infuse or fill completely
    In the case of “The Arrival,” I drew heavily on my own memories of travelling to foreign countries, that feeling of having basic but imprecise notions of things around me, an awareness of environments saturated with hidden meanings: all very strange yet utterly convincing.
  12. inquisitive
    showing curiosity
    In my own nameless country, peculiar creatures emerge from pots and bowls, floating lights drift inquisitively along streets, doors and cupboards conceal their contents, and all around are notices that beckon, invite or warn in loud, indecipherable alphabets.
  13. dispersal
    the act of spreading something around
    A scene of immigrants travelling in a cloud of white balloons was inspired by pictures of migrants boarding trains as well as the night-time spawning of coral polyps, two ideas associated by common underlying themes—dispersal and regeneration.
Created on Thu Jan 28 09:11:54 EST 2021 (updated Wed Feb 03 08:37:41 EST 2021)

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