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Unit 3:
A Letter from Birmingham Jail
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cognizant | knowledgeable |
| Retaliate | repay |
| Precipitate | accelerate or trigger |
| Complacency | self-satisfaction, ego or arrogance |
| Manifest | to make clear or evident, express |
| Mores | practices or routines |
| Provocation | instigates, angers, or irritates. |
| Parallelism | agreement in direction, or copy |
| Antithesis | the direct opposite, contrast |
| Shift | to transfer from one place, position, |
| Allusion | the making of a casual or indirect reference to something |
| claim | A claim statement is a type of thesis statement in which you present the main idea of what you are writing in the form of an argument. |