Borelli 1st semester finals vocab + lit terms
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- Compliance
- Giving in to a request or demand
- Dynamic Character
- Character that changes a lot from beginning to end as a result of what happens in the story
- Imminent
- Likely to happen without delay
- Satire
- Writing that ridicules society, a group, or a social institution (The simpsons)
- Dialogue
- Lines of speech in a literary work
- Innocence
- Innocence cannot be retained with knowledge, experience, and truth
- Simile
- Figure of speech that compares two unlike things with the use of like, as, resembles, or than
- Beguile
- To mislead or deprive
- Aloof
- At a distance
- Conscientious
- Careful
- Indirect Characterization (5)
- Author describes character through speech, thoughts, appearance, actions, and others' thoughts
- Mete
- To distribute
- Dramatic Irony
- When audience knows something that the character doesn't
- Blank Verse
- Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (ten syllables)
- Equity
- Justice according to natural law
- Beholden
- Indebted
- Foil Character
- Character used to contrast another character
- Rhythm
- Musical quality produced by repetition of stressed and unstressed sound patterns
- Denotation
- Dictionary definition of a word
- Prose
- Literary expression not marked by rhyme or meter (regular speech)
- Couplet
- Two lines of rhyming poetry
- Supplicate
- Ask for something humbly
- Cosonance
- Repetition of same consonant sounds with different vowel sounds inside the word
- Irk
- To annoy or irritate
- Paradox
- Statement that appears contradictory but has truth in it
- Intuition
- Immediate understanding or knowledge
- Broach
- To start a discussion
- Averse
- Opposed OR Having a feeling of opposition, distaste, or aversion; strongly disinclined
- Scruple
- Bad feeling about doing something that is wrong
- Candor
- Freedom from prejudice
- Discern
- To make out clearly or separate
- Notorious
- Widely but unfavorably known
- Arbiter
- One who settles disputes fairly
- Imprudence
- An action taken without judgment or caution
- Assonance
- Repitition of similar vowel sounds enclosed in different consonant sounds
- Sap
- Weaken or exhaust
- Sovereign
- One that exercises supreme, permanent authority, especially in a nation or other governmental unit
- Muster
- To call forth or summon up
- Desolate
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted
- Imagery
- Language that appeals to the senses
- Insolent
- Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant
- Rhyme (5 kinds)
- Exact, Half, Internal, Eye, Rhyme scheme
- Round Character
- Character with many traits
- Character
- A person in the story
- Oppressive
- Weighing heavily on the mind, body, or senses
- Pungent
- Producing a sharp sensation of taste or smell
- Pun
- Play on words
- Connotation
- Meanings a word suggests
- Flat Character
- Character with a few traits, easily describable
- Ordained
- To order by virtue of superior authority; decree or enact
- Tone
- Author's attitude toward audience, character, or subject
- Foreshadowing
- Clues that hint to events to come in the story
- Accentuate
- To emphasize
- Inflicts
- To give or cause pain by striking
- Rank
- Strong in smell or taste
- Catharsis
- An emotional release which brings about renewal of the self or welcome relief from anxiety or tension
- Erroneous
- Mistaken
- Rapt
- Completely absorbed
- Sonnet
- 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter
- Antagonist
- Obstacle to the protagonist; involved in the most important conflict with protagonist
- Symbol
- Thing that represents something beyond itself
- Juxtaposition
- Arrangement of 2+ ideas to compare or contrast
- Compelled
- To exert a strong force on
- Meter
- Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
- Versatile
- Changeable
- Soliloquy
- Long, solo speech in which speaker is alone on stage
- Delirium
- A state of extreme mental excitement and confusion
- Local Color
- Writing that presents the mannerisms, dress, speech, and customs of a particular place
- External Conflict (3)
- Conflict against another person, society, or the environment
- Breach
- A failure to observe a law; promise
- Errant
- Roving or wandering in search of adventure
- Taut
- Tightly drawn
- Genre
- Type of literature
- Fate
- Fate dictates our paths in life and can be altered
- Direct Characterization
- Author explains what character is like
- Oblivion
- The fact of having forgotten
- Mandate
- An authoritative command
- Personification
- Giving a nonhuman thing human characteristics
- Calibrations
- Markings on an instrument
- Iambic Pentameter
- Line of poetry that contains five iambs (meter of unstressed then stressed)
- Remiss
- Exhibiting carelessness or slackness
- Inanimate
- Not endowed with animal life
- Suspense
- Feeling of growing uncertainty about the outcome of events
- Allusion
- A reference to a thing well known
- Dissolute
- Overindulging in immoral activities
- Relent
- To become more lenient, compassionate, or forgiving
- Aside
- Words spoken on stage that other characters are not supposed to hear
- Perpetrate
- To commit or do
- Indignation
- Anger aroused by something unjust, mean, or unworthy
- Point Of View (3 kinds)
- First person narrator, Third person limited, Third person omniscient
- Ravenously
- In the manner of someone who is very hungry
- Monologue
- One person speaking, but can have other ppl on stage
- Flashback
- Scene in story where someone tells what happened in an earlier time
- Hate
- Hate is one of the most powerful emotions and if not controlled can cause destruction of self and others
- Diction
- Author's choice of words
- Lucid
- Easily understood; intelligible OR Mentally sound; sane or rational
- Suicide
- Suicide is the final solution to reparable life solutions
- Revenge
- Revenge is the seed for more death and destruction and ultimately does not pay off
- Brash
- Lacking in sensitivity or tact
- Plot (6 parts)
- Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution or Denouement
- Impending
- About to happen
- Theme
- Author's opinion of subject
- Heresy
- Rejection of a church belief
- Alliteration
- Repetition of the same consonant sound in words that are close together
- Static Character
- Character that doesn't change from beginning to end
- Epic (2 kinds)
- War and Journey
- Setting
- Time and place of story
- Hubris
- Excessive self-pride and self-confidence that leads to catastrophe
- Situational Irony
- Outcome of events happens opposite of what is expected
- Onomatopoeia
- Word that sounds like the sound it represents
- Languid
- Without vigor or vitality, weak
- Verbal Irony
- Sarcasm (Says one thing, means opposite)
- Narrator
- Person who tells a story
- Protagonist
- Main character; drives action
- Reiterates
- To repeat
- Renowned
- Famous
- Mood
- Atmosphere
- Archetype Character (ex.)
- Original model or type; a prototype (Superhero)
- Infallibility
- Not able to be wrong
- Uncouth
- Uncultured or crude
- Metaphor
- Figure of speech that compares two unlike things w/out use of like, as, resembles, or than
- Impalpable
- Not perceptible to the touch
- Love
- Love represents one's deepest feelings yet clouds one's judgment
- Evade
- To slip away
- Internal Conflict
- Conflict with him/herself
- Entreat
- To ask earnestly; implore