C2 · Mastery
Literary Atmosphere & Imagery
Explore words for atmosphere, longing and sensory imagery, and consider how marked literary diction shapes a narrator's voice.
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- Words & phrases
- 26
- Lessons
- 3
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
A preview of what you’ll master
Words you’ll make your own.
Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- wistful, melancholy
- twilight, dusk
- dusk, nightfall
- to linger, to dwell
- sensual delight, voluptuousness
- swelling, billowing
- grace, gracefulness
- lovely, graceful
- an abyss, a chasm
- dense darkness
- to trickle, to purl
- to surge, to roar (of water)
- a soughing, a rushing sound
- resonance, an echo
- the red glow of dawn
- moonlit
- a ghost, a specter
- to haunt
- melancholic, brooding
- to be enraptured, to dream (romantically)
- fair, beautiful (poetic)
- the firmament, the heavens
- dewy, wet with dew
- to sob
- elegiac
- grandiloquent
Danish words, pronunciation, and practice are waiting inside your learning account.
Understand the why
Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Literary Atmosphere and Imagery
- Lesson 2
Expressive Word Order
- Lesson 3
Debating Ornate Prose
Where this unit fits
Courses with this unit.
Mastery · Part 1
Work through the vocabulary, lessons, conversations and reading activities in this part. Practice grammar along the way.
27 Units · about 20 h
Style and Register
Adapt your style and register to any audience, from a formal speech to a literary text.
7 Units · about 5 h
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