Unit 1: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. effect
    a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon
  2. coherence
    logical, orderly, and consistent relation of parts
  3. internal
    happening or arising within some limits or surface
  4. external
    happening or arising outside some limits or surface
  5. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  6. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  7. connotation
    the internal content of a term or concept
  8. figurative
    not literal
  9. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  10. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  11. detail
    a small part considered separately from the whole
  12. folklore
    the unwritten stories and proverbs and songs of a culture
  13. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  14. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
Created on Wed Nov 10 16:30:10 EST 2021 (updated Fri Nov 19 08:56:15 EST 2021)

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