Lit Vocab 2
Terms
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- naturalism
- people are constructions of social forces
- misogyny
- hatred (contempt) of women
- canon (canonized)
- those literary works that are considered indispensible, great
- grovel
- syn: prostrate
- dogmatic
- taking an absolute, inflexible position on an issue
- dogma
- official laws and rules of a given faith
- decorum
- politeness, etiquette; a certain way of doing things correctly in terms of manners
- emasculated
- to "rob" a man of his sense of masculinity
- stoicism
- a resistance to displaying strong emotion, mostly negative, when faced with difficulties
- transmutation
- sudden transformation
- minimalism
- a literary style in which everything is pared down to the fullest extent; eliminate adverbs and adjectives
- eulogy
- words of praise for the recently deceased
- epiphany
- in literature, the conclusion of a story depends lesson an action than a transformative insight
- syntax
- the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences
- diction
- word choice
- insensate
- lacking sense or understanding; doing something with a complete lack of consciousness
- pathological
- characterized by unhealthy compulsion
- retrograde
- backward motion or direction (negative connotation)
- cipher
- a person or thing of no consequence
- genuflect
- to bow down before (literally)
- mundane
- ordinary circumstances that bore
- hyperbole
- an obvious exaggeration
- groveling
- kissing up
- prostrate
- to bow down before (figuratively)