Humanities vocab
Terms
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- Premise
- a propsition upon which a argument is based
- commiseration
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teh feeling of sorrow or pity
sympathy - supposition
- the act of guessing and assuption
- Ambiguous
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1 having multiple interprition
2 doubtful or unclear - adamant
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firm in purpous or opinion
unyealding stubon - derison
- the act of mocking
- commendatory
- express approcval and praise
- obtuse
- lacking quickness in perception or intalect
- Irony
- when the literal meaning is diffrent than the intended meaning
- satire
- a literary work that uses irony, hyperbole, parody, and wit to ridicule an idea or belief
- allegory
- a story that can be read on 2 levels literal and figurative- every chariters and place represnets something else
- protagonist
- the leading charactor in a literay work (hero)
- antagonist
- the opponent to the protagonist fo hero
- hyperbole
- an exagerated staement used as a figure of speach (i have a thousand pencils)
- forshadowing
- when early events hints at someting to come
- hamartia
- mistaken choice; tragic characteristics of being too human
- Hubris
- excessive pride; type of tragic flaw
- Tragic flaw
- a character trait or quality that leads to the hero's downfall
- motif
- a reoccurring pattern within a stary, either visual or thematic
- dionysian
- referring to greek god dionysus, the quality of human nature that is wild, disordaly, spontainious and savage
- appollonian
- refuring to the greek god apollo, the quality of human nature that is civil orderly ridgid and stable
- Theme
- the key idea of a story
- simile
- a mettaphor using like or as
- metaphor
- when two diffrent things are compaired
- monomyth
- a pattern that every story fallows. loss journy test return
- historic metaphor
- another patter that prequently occurs in stories, when events or time periods in a story represents events or time periods in history
- ontogentic metaphor
- a metaphor that frequently appears in stories when a character metaphorically goes through diffrent stages of the human life cycle
- nostalgia
- longing for the past
- ovidianism
- nostalgia, modern society is corrupt, progress as regress,
- genre
- a catagory or type of litary composition: novel, short story... some genres however are more specific: mystery novel, fantisy
- stoicism
- the philosophy of indiffrence to one's surroundings finding tranquility no matter what occurs
- mood
- the emotional response a work creates. ex) to build a fire- hopeless, bleak _____
- setting
- where and when a story takes place
- syntax
- the way in which word are put togetherto form a sentence
- tone
- the writers attitude twards a suject can be bitter, nostalgic, cynical, ironic, reverent...
- 7 conficts
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man VS. ____
man, god, nature, science, macine, self, society - dicton
- a writers choice and use of words
- symbol
- something that represents something else
- connotation
- the suggested, inplied meaning of a word or idea
- denotaion
- the dictionary deffinition of a word
- persona
- an alternate personality on author or chariter takes on
- garden of eden
- Genesis
- 4 ages
- ovid
- crushed petunias
- tennessee williams
- other side of the hedge
- EM Forster
- daedalus and icarus
- ovid
- musee des beaux arts
- wh auden
- deer in the works
- kurt vonnegut Jr.
- the lottery
- shirley jackson
- to biuld a fire
- Jack London
- Sound of thunder
- ray bradbury
- A&P
- jhon Updike
- Landscape with the fall of icurus
- William carlos williams
- to a friend whos work has come to triumph
- anne sexton
- the wayfinder
- Robert coover
- Night
- elie Wiesel
- Anthem
- ayn Rand
- urbane
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polite refined and often elegant in manner
civil cosmopolitan cultured - lark
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a carefree or spirited adventure
Prank andventure antic - demeanor
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the way in which a person behaves
deportmentair bearing mannor - din
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a jumble of loud dicordent sounds
clamor tumalt - jaunty
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having a buoyant or self confident air
airy buoyant - benign
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of a kind and gentle dispotion
amiable benevolent graciou favorable - judicious
- having or exhibiting sound judgment prudent sagacious astute sensible
- intangable
- incapable of being percived by the sences
- Pall
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1 a covering for a coffin
2 any covering - appendage
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something added or attached to a more improtant entity
attachment limb - reiterate
- to say or do something again or repeatedly
- minipulate
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1 to operate or control by skilled use of hands
2 to influenceor manaeg in a shrewd way
menover mold manage influence - apathy
- lack of intrest or concern
- monotonous
- tidous, rpetitive or lacking in variety
- methodical
- marked by order or sysematic habits and or behaveior
- protrude
- to push outward
- profuse
- lavishly extravegant
- repremand
- offical or sharp rebruke
- porfuntory
- done mearly out of self pity
- boisterous
- rough noisaly exuberant
- jovial
- marry and genial
- intermanable
- endless, tidiouly long
- annihlate
- to distroy compleatly
- infetisimal
- immensily small
- caverness
- huge
- bisect
- to cut in to
- undulate
- to move in a smoth manor
- parchment
- sheep or goat skin used like paper
- Relative pronoun
- Who Whoever Whom Whomever What That whose
- Subordinate conjunction
- After, Although, As, As long as, As if
- Coordinating conjunction
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But Or Yet So For And nor
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Aboard
About
Above
Across
After
Against
Along
Amid
Among
Around - Prepositional Phrase
- A group of words that begin w/ preposition
- Participle phrase
- Single, double, adverb, its, prep phrase
- Subordinate/dependent-
- can’t stand by itself as a sentence, needs a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun, requires a main clause to be a complete sentence, it leaves you asking, and so.
- Main/ independent clause
- can stand by itself as a sentence
- Appositive
- Renames a subject