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Unit 1
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Migrated | move to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions |
| shaman | a person who interacts with the spiritual world |
| aerial | a thin, metal antenna or high something that's high in the air |
| ceremony | a formal religious or public occasion, especially one celebrating a particular event, achievement, or anniversary |
| Free Verse | is poetry that does not follow a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Sensory Image | Sensory imagery is descriptive language that appeals to the five senses—sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell—to create vivid mental images and experiences for the reader. |
| Symbolism | is the use of objects, people, or ideas to represent something else |
| Extended metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as”—and then expands it over several lines or sections of text, exploring multiple aspects of the comparison in depth |
| Tone shift | occurs when the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject or audience changes within a text. |
| syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language |
| narrative techniques | strategic methods used to tell a story effectively. Some examples are point of view, flashback, foreshadowing, imagery and sensory details and dialogue |
| connotative | is the emotional or cultural association that a word carries |
| denotative | is the literal dictionary definition of a word |