Unit 3: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  2. voice
    the distinctive way a writer uses language to express ideas
  3. subordinate
    an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
  4. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  5. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  6. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  7. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  8. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  9. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  10. rhyme scheme
    the pattern of similar sounds at the end of lines in a poem
Created on Wed Nov 10 17:05:30 EST 2021 (updated Fri Nov 19 09:04:47 EST 2021)

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