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Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- realism
- believe all art be literature. No pictures. Realistic Scene.
- parallel structure
- repetition of construct such as I love running, hiking, and talking.
- manual labor
- construction worker
- duality
- two sides
- syncope
- leaving a letter off a word (ex: gettin' )
- insouciant
- adj. uncaring
- zeitgeist
- German word. spirit of time (literally) transfusion. cultural taste of a particular time period
- lassitude
- n. tiredness, diminishing of energy
- assimilation
- (n.) process which a person acquires the social or a psychological characteristics of another group. Act of becoming part of something.
- Napoleonic Code
- what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband
- Fait Accompli
- an accomplished fact.
- pneumatic
- adj. filled with air. Ex. Gatsby's penumatic mattress
- unctuous
- adj. someone trying to butter you up
- raison d'etre
- one's reason for living/existence
- abstract
- summary of a written work
- inamorata
- (n) the woman that holds a man's heart
- dissonance
- adj. clashing harsh or opposing sound
- ramification
- consequence, complication result, a usually unintended consequence of an action, decision, or judgment that may complicate a situation to make the desire result more difficult to achieve
- pariah
- social outsider
- concrete noun
- touchable
- syntax
- word order and sentence structure. (Not word choice)
- climax
- the turning point of the story
- sangfroid
- composure in face of difficulty or danger. Calmness under pressure
- allusion
- reference to something that happened
- cadge
- v. to beg
- genuflect
- (v) to vent in a show of relevant/worship; show excessive respect
- Bete Noire
- black beast (sth hated)
- beatitudes
- heavily happiness, bliss
- repudiate
- (v) to reject. to distant yourself from something.
- polysyndeton
- overuse of conjunction
- ablution
- (n) washing and bathing one's skin
- familiar
- someone who works in the household (usually in church)
- conditional response
- response made by anima humans that associates with experiences with some sort simulates.
- pearl of great price
- great value
- consance
- adj. pleasing harmony sound
- palimpsest
- a palimpsest on which writing is erased in order to put new writing on
- supercilious
- adj. arrogant, snob
- original sin
- in Christian theology, a sin inherited by all descendants of Adam; Adam and Eve committed the original sin when they ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden
- mania
- violent, abnormal or impulsive behavior
- antithesis
- (n) exact opposite
- pathos
- in art/literature, quality that evokes pity, sorrow, or strong feeling (more of a tone thing)
- delusion
- (n) a strong belief in something despite evidence (logical/clear evidence) willful not created by internal force.
- conspicuous consumption
- a term for buying expensive unnecessary stuff in order to show one's wealth
- gauche
- (adj.) lacking social graces (nervous when hanging out in social group)
- saturnine
- adj. sad, melancholy
- Jezebel
- Queen of Israel in Bible. Tried to have the pro. of God killed. Wicked and immoral woman
- relativism
- the belief that nothing is universally true. Instead everything is relative. Your understanding of things is based on circumstances.
- Old English
- The earliest form of the English language, used up to about AD 1150. Looks like Greek/German (Not recognizable)
- Elysia Field
- a place the good go when they die
- anthypophora
- arguing with self asking questions then answering
- Blue Blood
- old money (wealth passed down)
- penis envy
- all women want to be men
- emphatic
- with emphasize
- mendacious
- adj. deceiful
- cock and bull story
- unbelievable story
- perfidy
- n. deliberate treachery
- peripeteia
- reversal of fortune
- profligate
- (adj) absolutely shameless, wicked, imoral
- approbation
- (n) approval of something or someone. A favorable opinion of someone
- bildungsroman
- novel about somebody's formative years
- mores
- practices/customs/mannerism of a group of people
- lunatic fringe
- extremely rude (holders of extreme views)
- sadism
- abnomrla behavior characterized by deriving/getting sexual pleasure from infflicting physical pain on otehrs
- round character
- character that changes over the course. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. (dynamic)
- Nouveau Riche
- somebody with newly acquired wealthy (and likes to show off usually)
- asyndeton
- leaving out conjunctions. The omission of conjunctions in sentence constructions in which they would usually be used.
- toilette
- n. dressing/taking care of one's dressing before they leave
- Middle English
- English language from 1100 to 1500, spelt phonic
- WASP
- White Anglo Sestan Protestant
- paragon
- a model for perfection
- hamartia
- error in judgment that leads to a tragic hero's downfall
- zeugma
- a word in a sentence that is applied to two other words or phases in two different ways of sense
- authorial intrusion
- when you have the clear voice of the author into the narration
- direct object
- an object that is acted upon by the verb
- denouement
- part of the story right after climax in the work of literature. In drama it is the falling action.
- Gilead
- a place mentioned in a number of places (Old Testament), land east of Jordan River. Beautiful and fertile land
- lay
- a ballet, meant to be song. Poem for singing.
- egocentric
- one who is overly concerned with oneself
- archetype
- a original model which copies are made. In literature, it is a repeative character
- multiple personality disorder
- existence of more than one distinguish personality. sometimes it is a way of coping
- apathetic
- indifferent. You don't give a damn.
- anathema
- an object of extreme hate. You don't use this word lightly. Usage: a anathema (not an). Hate on a personal level.
- dramatic irony
- situation where character is unaware of something audience knows
- utilitarianism
- The needs of the many should outweigh the needs of the few.
- demotic
- language of the people
- flat character
- character that doesn't change (static)
- tragedy of circumstance
- tragedy in which a character through no fault of his/her own that meets its doom. Through something outside the force, ex. God)
- displacement
- Instead of take your emotion on the person that deserves, you put that emotion to your closet person.
- social mobility
- the ability of individual to move forward and downward in society
- apposite modifier
- a noun or pronoun that stands in place of a noun that means the same thing, for example, my car, the Honda is parked.
- on tenterhook
- in a state of nervous anexity
- abstract noun
- an idea that can't be touched
- eponymous
- title of a novel is same name as the main character
- affected
- adj. speaking or acting in an artificial or fake way
- de facto segregation
- segregation in fact in practice rather than in law. (Ex. School's lunch cafeteria)
- orgiastic
- adj. intensity of feeling
- toiletry
- n. object used in putting on toilette
- succor
- n. to provide help to someone in time of need.
- aposiopesis
- rhetorical device in which a sentence ends abroadly. Ex: "What are you ---- "
- salad days
- (plural n.) time of youthful inexperience
- deleterious
- adj. harmful
- maladjustment
- inability to adjust to changes and demands (acts out)
- gallant
- adj. cordics, attendative (applying to man)
- sub-text
- below text (what is implied), underneath
- psyche
- your mind, soul, spirit as opposed to your physical being center of though, feelings, motivation. Direct our action/reaction to things that happen in our environment. Life.
- gesticulate
- v. make gestures when speaking
- diction
- word choice in speech, writing
- pissant
- (n) completely wasteless person
- hyperbole
- an exaggeration
- immutable
- adj. unchanging
- adynaton
- a hyberbole. So exaggerate that it is impossible
- inamorato
- (n) the man that holds a woman's heart
- allusion
- a reference to a person or event or thing in popular culture, literature, religion, and cultural literacy
- prurient
- (adj.) perverse, disgusting
- blue collar/white collar
- opposite of manual labor. brain work
- lilies of the field
- saying from Bible. Jesus tells his followers to not think of materials or possessions. Lilies are natural, so he wants his followers to concentrate on nature
- loaves and fishes
- not enough food. Jesus multipled loaves and fishes
- antithesis
- placing of two opposite ideas/images. Dark & light. Explain study about life (explain its beauty, but then introduce the death same way as it describes life). A use of words or phrases that contrast with each other to create a balanced effect.
- epistrophe
- another form of repetition. A group of sentence ends with same word
- alter ego
- n. another one. Usually refers to a close friend.
- pathetic fallacy
- n. human emotion or motivations are given to natural object (like tree). Natural phenomena. (Sort of like personification but focus more on natural)
- pasquinade
- a kind of satire except it is excessive to the crude
- persona non grata
- A person who is not favored by anyone.
- solecism
- improper use of grammar in speech
- figurative language
- language written can be interpreted
- bumptious
- loudly assertive (nice way of saying pushy)
- aphorism
- a short statement that express some truth about life
- Freudian slip
- an error in speech that reveals suppressed feeling
- Olive Branch
- symbol for peace
- local color
- a detail dsecription of a very specific place and time and lands more realism to text
- paramour
- n. a lover, especially in a adulterous relationship. Especially one in a relationship with a married person.
- somnambulatory
- doing something while sleepwalking
- satire
- a critism of human folly through the use of humor or sarcasm (human stupidity)
- class consciousness
- one's awareness of one's social class and its relation to other social class
- malinger
- pretend illness to get out of obligation
- portmanteau
- a new word formed by combining two or three words. (ex. smog: smoke, fog)
- claret
- a red wine
- prop
- stage propery, an object used during a play
- phallic symbol
- anything that is shaped as a penis. Ex: space shuttle. Something created (not finger).
- emotive language
- language that arouses or expresses emotion (emotion reaction)