English Review CRITICAL LITERARY & GENRE ELEMENTS

Critical:

to gradually decrease in size or intensity

• Instrinsic

• Recede

• Hue

• Wane

Critical:

to soak with liquid to the point where nothing more can be absorbed 

• Saturate

• Recede

• Vestiges

• Subliminal

Critical:

color, shade, or tint 

• Virulence

• Hue

• Anomalous

• Recede

Critical:

to move back or away from something 

• Expendable

• Vestiges

• Recede

• Virulence

Critical:

the quality of aggressively causing disease. 

• Virulence

• Recede

• Wane

• Paradox

Critical:

the quality of having a harmful influence. 

• Anomalous

• Virulence

• Malevolance

• Vestiges

Critical:

unusual; different from the norm. 

• Intrinsic

• Anomalous

• Vestiges

• Subliminal

Critical:

of or relating to the essential nature of a thing

• Malevolance

• Vestiges

• Intrinsic

• Expendable

Critical:

a visible trace of something that once existed 

• Paradox

• Expendable

• Vestiges

• Intrinsic

Critical:

worth sacrificing to gain an object  

• Subtle

• Expendable

• Intrinsic

• Anomalous