Lit Vocab terms
Ok, so he gave us a list of all the vocab terms to know, so i decided to try to type them all up. here goes...
Terms
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- cognate
- a common root of origin (like "un" "uno" and "unus" all mean "one" and all come from the same origin)
- humanities
- literal: a specific study
- neologism
- the introduction of a new word to language
- rationalism
- philosophical theory that reason is the ONLY valid basis for action or belief or source of knowledge and spiritual truth
- syllepsis
- the use of one verb to govern two different clauses ("he held the door and his breath")
- bowdlerize
- to remove any vulgar or obscene passages from a written work, named for Thomas Bowdler
- romantic
- a style of art which emphasizes the ideals of all life
- infer
- to draw a conclusion based on evidence, often incoplete
- art
- human effort intended to imitate, alter, add to, or otherwise represent "nature"; the conscious production or arrangement of sound, color, form, movement, language, or other elements in a manner that somehow affects the human sense of beauty; the production of beauty in "material" or "plastic" form
- paradox
- an idea that seems contradictory but actually has truth
- race
- a group of persons related to a common descent or heredity
- thesis
- propsition stated or put forward for consideration
- humanism
- a philosophy that is concerned with human beings, their achievements, their interests, their advancements. in contrast to philosphies or religions that focus on human or supernatural authoriy
- aestetics
- the branch of philosophy that explores theories and ideas about the concept of beauty and its appreciation
- artifact
- any object that has been "worked" by a human
- realism
- a style of art which is more similar to what occurs in real life
- syntax
- the study of the formation of grammatical sentences
- connotation
- a secondary meaning of a word
- imply
- to give incomplete evidence that leads ot a conclusion
- beauty
- a pleasing quality associated with harmony of form, color, movement, sound, truthfulness, originality, or other unidentifiable quality (or combination of these). this quality arouses a strong, thoughtful delight.
- Sisyphean
- an endless task, related to the Greek Sisyphus
- linguistics
- the science of languages
- empiricism
- philosophical theory that physical evidence is the ONLY valid basis for action or belief or source of knowledge and spiritual truth
- personality
- one's character
- euphemism
- the substitution of a mild or indirect phrase for a vulgar, blunt one..."to put it lightly"
- figurative
- involving a figure of speech
- science
- the branch of knowledge dealing with a body of facts gathered through observation and experimentation
- literature
- writings
- logic
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- anthropology
- the study of human cultures--their creations, institutions, group behaviors, religions, languages, and the like
- epithet
- nickiname, discriptive substitue name, (Ivan
- satire
- a type of humor, often critical of something
- colloquialism
- the use of an informal word or phrase for a more formal one (like "gonna" or "hafta"
- magic
- connection with a supernatural force, not for personal gain
- individualism
- philosophy that says that the interests and progress of the single human being is primary - not the state, not the group, not God
- anthropomorphism
- the attribution of human form to a non-human object or other representation
- chiasmus
- a reversal of order in two otherwise parallel phrases, AB:BA,
- philosophy
- the investigation of truths
- intuition
- the ability to have quick insight
- civilization
- a culture that is characterized by agriculture and/or domesticated livestock and a written language
- ideograph
- a character or symbol expressing an idea without words or letters (like a red octagon means "stop")
- law
- rules established in a community
- humanities
- the branch of formal learning that is concerned with culture and its products
- novella
- a work of fiction that is shorter than a novel but longet than a short story
- determinism
- philosophical theory that every act and descion is the inevitable result of specific influences (physical, psy
- literal
- following the primary meanings of the word(s)
- denotation
- the exact or literal meanin of a word
- antithesis
- condradictory proposition
- idiom
- a language, dialect, speaking, or even phrase of one certain people (like "jimmies" in new england)
- consciousness
- the complex state of awareness which is unique to human beings and which separates humanity, in a pofound way, from all other creatures
- lingua franca
- a language that is used to communicate among speakers of different languages
- modernism
- a style of art which is considered "modern" and does not necessarily follow standards of art
- dialectic
- discussion or argument that goes back and forth using logic
- ethics
- philosophical study of right and way
- mysticism
- belief in realities beyond phusical senses and human reason
- virtue
- moral excellence or rightousness; goodness
- religion
- set of beliefs concerning cause, nature, and purpose of the universe
- totem
- an object with some sort of signigicance
- learning
- the act of aquireing knowledge
- language
- body or system of words for the use of a common people