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55 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Reminisce | to recall one's past thoughts, feelings, or experiences |
| Rigorous | demanding strict attention to rules and procedures |
| Fracture | the act of cracking something |
| Reinforce | make stronger |
| Contradict | prove negative |
| Departure | euphemistic expressions for death |
| Emphasize | to stress, single out as important |
| Reveal | make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret |
| Scatter | cause to separate |
| Splatter | the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively |
| Intend | have in mind as a purpose |
| Reaction | an idea evoked by some experience |
| Lack | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable |
| Precaution | a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. |
| Fundamental | being or involving basic facts or principles |
| Exposure | the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience |
| Adverse | in an opposing direction |
| Thorough | painstakingly careful and accurate |
| Derive | develop or evolve, especially from a latent or potential state |
| Replace | substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) |
| Reflect | reflect deeply on a subject |
| Combine | join for a common purpose or in a common action |
| Dramatic | suitable to or characteristic of drama |
| Precise | (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth |
| Link | a fastener that serves to join or link |
| Claim | demand for something as rightful or due |
| Apparent | clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses |
| Transition | a passage that connects a topic to one that follows |
| Stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| Line | a formation of people or things one behind another |
| Couple | something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines |
| Syllable | A unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word or phrase. |
| The Speaker | Person who is talking |
| The reader | The person who is reading |
| The consumer | Person who buys something |
| Fiction | a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact |
| Non-fiction | writing that tells about real people, places, and events |
| Poetry | any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling |
| Pattern of Organization | The way something is organized |
| Expository | explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition |
| Narrative | consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story |
| Descriptive | describing the structure of a language |
| Persuasive | capable of convincing |
| Position | put into a certain place or abstract location |
| Authors purpose | Why the author wrote it like that |
| Content | something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation |
| Italicize | a slanting font used to emphasize a word or phrase |
| Conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| Symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible |
| Reference | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to |
| Ballad | a narrative poem of popular origin |
| Excerpt | a passage selected from a larger work |
| Parallel structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures |
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