Vocab 5-9
Terms
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- parable
- short, allegorical story, meant to teach a moral lesson
- euphemism
- the substitution of a mild expression for a offensive or harsh one
- rhetoric
- the art of speaking or writing effectively
- gaffe
- socially akward or tactless act, blunder
- versimilitude
- the appearance of truth, the quality of seeming to be true
- atavistic
- reverting to the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type
- syllogism
- form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major and minor premise, and a conclusion
- point of view
- attitude or outlook of a narrator or character
- reductio ad absurdum
- disproof by showing that the consequences of the preposition are absurd or contradicting
- proliferation
- rapid and often excessive spread or increase
- recount
- relate or narrate, tell in detail
- first person narrator
- storytelling from the i perspective
- fallibility
- not accurate, likely to contain an error
- satire
- human vice or folly being attakced through irony, sarcasm, or wit
- epoch
- a period of time distinguished by a particular event
- empathy
- identification with and understanding another's situation, feelings, and motives
- regionalism
- the use of regional characterisitics as of locale custom or speech
- sanctity
- being considered sacred or holy
- toady
- trying to gain favor by flattering
- theme
- unifying idea that is a recurrent element
- macabre
- gruesome or horrifying, pertaining to death
- zuegma
- use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one
- mode
- the arrangement or order of prepositions in a syllogism according to quality and quantity
- ubiquitous
- being or seeming to be everywhere at once
- deplore
- to fell or express strong disapproval of, sorrow or grief
- oxymoron
- Incongruous or contradictory terms combined in one claus.
- humanism
- system of thought or action in which human values and dignity predominate
- chauvinistic
- prejudice belief in the superiority of one's own gender group or kind
- affinity
- pertaining to people who share the same interests. a natural liking or attraction to a person or thing.
- syntactic fluency
- writers ability to create a variety of sentence structures
- onomatopoeia
- Formations of a word by imitation of a sound.
- parallelism
- arangement of similarly constructed clauses, in a sequence, suggesting comparision
- abetted
- to approve, encourage, and support usually a wrong doing
- deride
- laught at in scorn or contempt, mock
- paradox
- opinion or statement exhibiting an apparent contradictory nature
- ominous
- portending evil or harm, menacing or threatening
- moderate
- make or become less violen, severe, or intense
- simile
- two things compared using like or as
- anarchist
- a person who promotes disorder or excites revolt against any establishment
- laggard
- moving or developing slowly
- dissident
- disagreeing as in opinion or belief
- inference
- process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumd premises
- understatement
- form of irony in which something is intentionally represented as less than it is
- personification
- when inanimate objects are endowed with human qualities
- deity
- person revered as a god or goddess, divine
- synecdoche
- substituting a part for a whole
- voice
- the distinct style of manner of an quthor or a charcter
- largesse
- generosity of spirit or attitude
- corroborative
- make certain or support, confirm
- lascivious
- characterized by lust, stimulating sexual desire
- chagrin
- feeling of vexation marked by dissappoinment or humiliation. to vex by dissappointment or humiliation
- protagonist
- leading character, hero, or heroine
- cohort
- a group of people sharing a particular characteristic
- squeamish
- easily shocked or disgusted
- predicated
- part of a preposition that is affirmed or denied about the subject
- objectivity
- judgement based on fact not emotion or prejudice
- buttress
- to make stronger or support
- imperative
- absolutely necessary, unavoidable. a command.
- recluse
- a person who lives in isolation. withdrawn from the world.
- Idyllic
- charming in a rustic way; naturally peaceful
- inadvertent
- unintentional, lack of care
- stream of conciousness
- Presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur
- polysyndeton
- repetition of conjunctions in close succession
- sanguinary
- characterized by or eager for bloodshed
- sonnet
- lyric poem of 14 lines with a strict conventional pattern or rhyme
- pathos
- emotionally movinb power of literary work
- auditory
- perceived through or resulting from the sense of hearing
- straw man
- made up arguement that can be easily defeated used as a distraction
- tenor
- course of thought throughout a text
- topography
- the surface features of a place or region
- symbolism
- representing things by means of a symbol or attributing symbolic means
- petrarchan conceit
- rests upon elaborate and exageratted comparisions
- pervasive
- spreading or spread throughout
- innocuous
- harmless, not causing disapproval
- finitude
- quality or condition of being complete
- subjectivity
- judgement based on feelings and opinions not facts
- tentative
- under terms not complete or agreed upon
- diminutive
- being small, little or tiny. a small thing or person
- parody
- a mocking imitation of style, or ridiculing the habits of an author
- syntactic permutation
- sentence structures that are extraordinarily involved or complex, making it hard to understand
- travesty
- exaggerated or grotesque imitation such as a parody
- rhetorical question
- question asked withoug expectation of an answer used to make a point
- devoid
- completely lacking. a complete lack of.
- truculence
- ferrociously cruel actions or behaivor, wanting to fight
- pedantic
- narrow concern for formal rules, bordering on lecturing.
- motley
- exhibiting great diversity of elements. a heterogeneous mixture of elements
- tone
- manner of expression in speaking or writing
- icons
- important and enduring symbol, object of great devotion
- pervade
- to become spread throughout all parts
- genocide
- deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, or cultural group
- wax
- increase in extent, quantity, intensity, or power
- compunction
- strong uneasiness caused by guilt
- impertinent
- not relative, incongruous or absurd
- interior monologue
- writing that represents the inner thoughts of a character
- ostentatious
- intend to attract notice and impress others
- syntax
- sequence in which words are put together to form sentences
- thesis
- central idea that presents an arguement in a piece of writing
- anecdotal
- arangement of elements in a scene to emphasize story content
- salacious
- sexual desire, imagination
- angst
- feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression
- cacophony
- harsh or discordant sounds, difficult to understand
- heretic
- professed believer who holds controversial opinions agains their church
- incontrovertibly
- impossible to dispute, unquestionable
- prowess
- exceptional or superior ability, skill, or strength
- decorum
- dignified propriety of behaivor, speech, or dress.
- inefficacy
- lack of power or capacity to produce the desired effect