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Sophomore Vocab 1
Term | Definition |
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plagiarism | copying someone else's work and presenting it as if it is your own |
turmoil | commotion, chaos |
vague | unclear |
cohesion | sticking together to create a unified whole |
perpetual | not stopping, continuing indefinitely |
ravage | devastate |
scarcity | not enough of a resource |
variable | a factor or thing that varies or changes |
fragment | a piece, not a whole |
paraphrase | rewriting in your own words, approximately same length as original |
summary | shorter version of the original using only the main points |
quote | word for word copy of a sentence or passage with quotation marks and a citation giving credit to the source |
quiet | not making noise |
quit | stop |
quite | very |
etymology | word origin |
soliloquy | long solo speech given by a character alone on stage about his/her internal conflict |
aside | when a character breaks the fourth wall to tell the audience a "secret" |
archetype | a recurring character type or symbol that is typical across literature from various time periods and genres |