AP Lit
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- hypotaxis
- dependant relation or construction- as the leaves fall in the autumn, so he fell in love
- In Medias Res
- in the middle of things. The epics were usually writtten in medias res
- orphean
- of or pertaning to orpheus, the greek musician, entrancing or melodious
- thence
- from that place
- oxymoron
- conjunction of normally incompatable terns.. ex. jumbo shrimp
- wit
- reason ,brilliant play of mental powers, a person who can be brillant wiht words and wordplay
- leviathan
- huge ,biblical sea creature
- exegesis
- interpitation of a text or portion of a text
- verdant
- green, fresh inexperenced
- aught
- in any degree, at all
- incumbant
- resting, lyring, leaning
- credulous
- willing to believe or trust too readily
- antithesis
- juxtaposition of opposed terms in adjacent phrases ex. they who seemed giants/now small as gnats
- livid
- enraged ,furiously angery
- periphrasis
- beating around the bush:the use of too many words to say what can be said in a few
- satiate
- to supply with anything to excess
- parataxis
- the placing together of sentances, clauses, or phrases without a conjunctive word or words ex. i came ,i saw,i conquered
- type
- to foreshadow ..ex. god and christ