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R & J Academic VocA
A R & J Academic Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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mood | how the reader feels while experiencing a text |
monologue | a long speech by one actor in a play |
prologue | the introduction to a play or literary work |
pun | a play on words that has more than one meaning |
sonnet | a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and number of syllables per line |
allusion | a reference to a cultural event, person, place, or thing that the reader should be familiar with |
metaphor | a comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated |
theme | the overall universal message the author is trying to convey in a text |
tragedy | a genre of drama focusing on human suffering |
summary | brief accounting of the main events of the story told in chronological order and does not include the reader’s opinion |