Lit Mid-Term
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- intuition
- the act or capacity of knowing and understandinf without the apparent use of rational, logical processes
- learning
- acquired wisdom, knowledge, skill or a change in behavior
- epithet
- a descriptive name that substitutes for another real name
- infer
- to draw a conclusion based upon umcomplete evidence
- syntax
- the arrangment of sentences,clauses, and phrases
- sorcery
- aggressice use of supernatural powers as a means to further the interests of a sorcerer
- totem
- an animal, plant, or other object that is considered highly significant by an individual or social group
- idiom
- a word or phrase characteristci of a given group that other speakers of the same language have trouble understanding
- consciousness
- the complex state of awareness which is unique to human beings and which seperates humanity in a profound way, from all other creatures
- cognate
- words from diff. languages that are related
- neologism
- a word that is new to a language
- logic
- the academic study of reasoning processes
- euphenism
- a word or expression thats soft or nice that substitutes for a harsh word
- rationalism
- philosophical theory that reason is the only valid basisi for action or beliefe
- ethics
- philosphy of morals and right behavior and the study of that
- aesthetics
- the branch of philosophy that explores theries and ideas about the concept of beauty and its appreciation
- anthropology
- the study of human cultures
- dialectic
- argument using reason to reach a conclusion
- civilization
- a culture that is characterized by agriculture and or domesticated livestock and a written language
- humanities
- the branch of formal learning that is concerned with culture and its products
- law
- a standard of human behavior that is enforced
- realism
- in narrative art, when the writer tries to make her story as close to real life as possible
- literature
- the preserved writings of a given language or culture
- reason
- the capacity or action of rational, conscious thought
- artifact
- any object that has been worked by a human being or used as a tool
- colloquialism
- informal, everyday speech and writing
- virtue
- quality or one of the qualitites of goodness
- satire
- in the arts when fun is poked at serious subjects
- humanism
- philosophical theory that the primary focus of life should be human beings and the improvement and advancement of that
- art
- human effort intended to imitate, alter, add to or otherwise represent nature
- mysticism
- the belief in the existence of realities beyond the physical senses and the human intellect, but central to being and accesible to intuition
- beauty
- a pleasing quality associated with harmony of form, color, movement, sound, truthfulness, originality, or other unidentifiable quality
- language
- the words their pronunciations and the methods of combining them used and understood by a group
- anthropormorphism
- the attribution of human form to a non-human object or other representaion
- race
- a human population that exhibits a distinctive genetic composition of physical traits
- figurative
- of or related to suggested related meaning or reality
- chiasmus
- a flip-floppy verbal or written trick
- determinism
- every human act of decision is the inevitable result of specific influences
- modernism
- applies to all art, taking the established standards of art and experimenting with it
- personality
- the sum total of behavior traits that are characteristic of an individual person
- magic
- the control of supernatural forces through the use of repeated behaviors or rituals
- literal
- of or related to exact concrete meaning or reality
- individualism
- philosophical theory that the interests of the single human being takes precedant over all other considerations
- theocracy
- a government or social order controlled by religios officials
- imply
- to give evidence that is often incomplete that is designated for a conclusion
- empiricism
- philosophical theory that physical eveidence is the only source of knowledge
- philosophy
- the branch of academics which explores the concepts of reality
- science
- explanation of nature
- religion
- belief in a supernatural being or beings and the related ways of behaving as a result