semester test: english
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- quaint
- odd or old fashioned in a pleasing way; clever, ingerious; skillfully made
- metomorphosis
- a marvelous change form one shape or form to another
- frustrate
- to prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; to cause fellings of discouragement
- hyperbole
- an exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literaly
- fiction
- a prose account that is made up rather than true
- buffoon
- a clown; a coarse, stupid person
- inflammable
- easily set on fire; easily angered or aroused
- denotation
- is the literal dictionary definition
- sodden
- soaked with liquid or miosture; expressionless, dull, spiritless, listless
- fruitless
- not producing the desired results, unsuccessful
- virtual
- having a certain force of effect in fact but not in name; so close as to be eqivalent to the real thing
- folktale
- story, with no known author that was originally passed from one generation to another by word of mouth
- biography
- the story of a real person's life, written or told by another person
- anonymous
- unnamed, wothout the name of the person involved; unknow; lacking indiviuality or character
- dynamic
- active, energetic, forceful
- scrimp
- to handle very economically or stingily; to supply in a way that is small, short, or scanty
- rural
- relating to farm areas and life in the country
- oxymoron
- a figure of speech comging seemingly contradictory expressions
- inimitabe
- not capable of being copied or imitated
- preview
- something seen in advance; to view beforehand
- counterfeit
- an imitation designed to decive; (adj) not genuine, fake (n) to make an illegal copy
- radiant
- shining, bright; giving forth light or energy
- drama
- a story written to be acted in front of an audience
- personification
- a figure of speech in which a nomhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
- substantial
- large, impotrant; major, significant; prosperous; not imaginary, material
- reluctant
- unwilling, holding back
- fugitive
- one who flees or runs away; (adj) fleeting, lasting very short time; wndering; difficult to grasp
- wayward
- diobendient, willful; unpredictable, capricious
- snare
- to trap, catch; a trap or entanglement
- malignant
- deadly, extremely harmful, evil; spiteful, malicious
- mortify
- to hurt someone's feelings deeply; to cause embarrassment or humiliation; to subdue or disipline by slef-denial or suffing
- inflict
- to give or cause something unpleasant, impose
- eradicate
- to root out, get rid or, destroy completely
- point of view
- the vantage poin form which a story is told
- fallible
- capable of being wrong, mistaken, or inaccurate
- dialect
- a way of speaking that is characteristis of a particular region or group of people
- pending
- waitint to be settled; until
- utmost
- greated, highest, farthest; the extreme limit
- refrain
- a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech
- makeshift
- a temporary substitute for something else; crude, flimsy, or temporary
- fickle
- liable to change very rapidly, erratic; marked by a lack of constancy or steadiness, inconsistent
- simile
- a comparison of two unlike things using a word like like, as, themk or resembles
- orthodox
- in agreement with established or generally accepted beliefs or ways of doing things
- dupe
- a person wasily tricked or deciebed; to deceive
- tactful
- skilled in handling difficult situations or people, polite
- scurry
- to run quickly, scamper, hurry
- speaker
- the voice talking in a poem
- limerick
- a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
- entreat
- to beg, implore, ask earnestly
- iota
- a very small part or quantity
- consolidate
- to combine, unite; to make solid or firm
- grimy
- very dirty, covered with dirt or soot
- ultimate
- last final; most important or extreme; eventual; basic, fudamental
- connotation
- the feeling and associations that a word suggests
- flashback
- an interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at on earlier time
- potential
- possible, able to happen; (n) something that can develope or become a reality
- alliance
- a joining together for some common purpose
- symbol
- a person, a place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and it stands for something beyond itself as well
- spirited
- full of life and vigor; courageous
- grim
- stern, merciless; fierce, savage, cruel
- anecdote
- a short story of an incident in someone's life
- mood
- the overal emotion in a work of literature
- metaphor
- an umaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another
- theme
- the idea about life revealed in a work of literature
- tall tale
- an exaggerated, fanciful story that gets taller and taller more and more far fetched, the more it is told and retold
- procure
- to obtain through special effort; to bring about
- prescribe
- to order as a rule or course to be followed; to order for medical purposes
- hostile
- unfriendly; unfavorable; warlike, aggressive
- bewilder
- to puzzle completely, confuse
- dishearten
- to discourage
- prominent
- standing out so as to be easily seen; important, wellknown
- void
- completely empty; having no legal force or effect; (n) empty or unfilled space; (v) to cancel or nullify
- marginal
- in, at, or near the edge or margin; only barely good, large, or important enough for the purpose
- tone
- the attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, subject, or a character
- wince
- to draw back suddenly, as though in pain or fear; (n) the act of drawing back in this way
- uncertainty
- doubt, the state of being unsure
- rythm
- a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed adn on stressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns
- fable
- a brief story in prose or verse that tesches a moral or gives a practical lesson about how to get a long in life
- maul
- to beat or knock about, handle roughly; to mangle; (n) a heavy hammer
- myth
- a story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other superhuman beings
- imagery
- language that appeals to the senses
- browse
- to nibble, graze; to read caually; to window-shop
- docile
- easily taught, led, or managed; obedient
- atmosphere
- the overall mood or emotion of a work of literature
- tamper
- to interfere with; to meddle rashly or foolishly with; to handle in a secret and improper way
- autobiography
- to story of a persons life, written and told by that person
- irony
- in general, a contrast between expetation and reality
- controversial
- arousing argument, dispute, or disagreement
- vengeance
- punishment in return for an injury or a wrong; unusual force or violence
- dominate
- to rule over by strength or power, control; to tower over, command due to height