Unit 2: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. lede
    the attention-grabbing introductory section of a news story
  2. motive
    the reason that arouses action toward a desired goal
  3. strategize
    devise a plan or course of action
  4. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  5. aside
    a line spoken by an actor not intended for others on stage
  6. blocking
    the precise staging of performers’ positions and movements
  7. monologue
    a dramatic speech by a single actor
  8. ode
    a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  9. structure
    the building of something and the arrangement of its parts
  10. prosody
    a system of versification
  11. couplet
    a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse
  12. sestina
    a poem with six six-line stanzas and a final triplet
  13. soliloquy
    a dramatic speech giving the illusion of unspoken reflection
  14. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  15. stage direction
    instruction or description written in the script of a play
  16. subtext
    a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
Created on Fri Nov 19 14:46:04 EST 2021 (updated Mon Jan 03 10:25:42 EST 2022)

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