Vocabulary

=Vocabulary=

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Alle- Vex- to irritate; annoy; provoke; "His noisy neighbors often vexed him"

Bellicose- inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile


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 * Ambivalence - { noun } uncertainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. **


 * Burlesque - { noun } an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity. **


 * Callous - { adjective } insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic . **

**Complacent - { adjective } pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc. **
 * Cloistered - { adjective } secluded from the world; sheltered. **

**Anecdote - { noun, Rhetoric } a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. //Back in my day, Pluto was a planet, and there were only 151 Pokemon! :)//**

**Apostrophe - { noun, Rhetoric } a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea. //"O Death, where is thy sting?"// **

**Aside - { noun, Rhetoric } a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience, words spoken so as not to be heard by others present. //The beginning of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet confesses her love for Romeo to no one in particular.// **

**Inversion - { noun, Rhetoric } reversal of the usual or natural order of words; anastrophe. //"United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do." - JFK's inaugural address.//**

**Vignette - { noun, Rhetoric } a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or gives a trenchant impression about a character, an idea, or a setting and sometimes an object. //"There are spies in the woods. In the early morning I have seen fine tripwires strung from tree to tree, caught sight of silent messages heliographed between rain-spattered leaves, heard them signal to each other: bird calls echoing through the mist." - Gwyneth Box.//**

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Katie- Assonance- repetition of vowels in words close together

Anaphora- repetition of initial words in consecutive sentences for effect. EX: IT WAS the best of times, IT WAS the worst of times.

Synecdoche- figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole (BTW Mrs. Mick! According to wikispaces spell check, "synecdoche" is not a part of the English language...) Well, Wikispaces is just limited in his/her academic knowledge. :)

Pedantic- overly concerned with minute details

Synaestesia- a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulted

Crystal- //Ex. an oxymoron//
 * Juxtaposition**- placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast

//Ex. a character trait, object, color, idea, place, etc.//
 * Motif**- a standard theme, element, or dramatic situation that recurs in various works

//Ex. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.//
 * Hyperbole**- intentional exaggeration to create an effect

//Ex. "A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave..." -William Shakespeare's King Lear//
 * Invective**- an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack

//Ex. Shakespeare's sonnet, "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"// Vindictive- having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge
 * Conceit**- a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor

Irreverent- showing lack of due respect or veneration

Cynical- doubtful as to whether something will happen or is worthwhile

Didactic- intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Facetious- treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant

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**Korrin** -
__Diatribe__ - //a// // bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism //  __Embellishment__ - //a// // fictitious addition, as to a factual statement // __Dogma__ - //a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle//  __Feign__ - //to invent fictitiously// //or deceptively, as a story or an excuse //  __Consecrate__ - //to make// //or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to // //the service of a deity //  __Emulate__ - //to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort// //to equal or surpass // __Infidel__ - //without religious faith; due to or manifesting unbelief//

 __Concrete Language__ - //language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities// __Paraprosdokian__ - //surprise or unexpected ending of a phrase or series// __Tautology__ - //repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence// __Euphemism__ - //substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant// __Anacoluthon__ - //lack of grammatical sequence; a change in the grammatical construction within the same sentence// __Litotes__ - //understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed// __Archaism__ - //use of an older or obsolete form// <span style="color: #7934b4; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__Aporia__ - //expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do//

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Also: I made this last semester with one of the many packets Mrs. Mick gave us:
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Paradox- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Antecedent- a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that' s replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in [|the] same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence.

Archetype- the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form.

Pragmatic- of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.

Metonymy- a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Gillen**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**antagonist**__-a character, institution, group, or force that is in conflict with the protagonist <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**bildungsroman**__- a novel that deals with the coming of age or growing up of a young person from childhood or adolescence to maturity. example: Luke Skywalker in //Star Wars// <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; cursor: default; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**canto**__-a section of a long poem __**fable**__- a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">epiphany- __** a statement or saying on the title page of a work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of a work.

__**consonance**__-The repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words
 * __assonance__**-The repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words that do not rhyme
 * __irony-__** the opposite of what is expected. A reality different from what is expected
 * __pathos-__** Pity, sympathy, or sorrow felt by the reader in response to an authors words.
 * __ellipsis-__** The omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context. ex-Some people prefer cats, others, dogs.

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Elegy- A formal poem about death. **E**xample: of an elegy is //Idllys// by Theocritus, written in the third century B.C. Quatrain- a four line stanza: example: The mountain frames the sky (a)

As a shadow of an eagle flies by. (a)

With clouds hanging at its edge (b)

A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge. (b)

Caricature- writing that exaggerates or distorts personal qualities of an individual. example:Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Chiaroscuro-the contrasting of light and darkness. Example:Nathaniel Hawthorne uses chiaroscuro affectively in The Scarlet Letter to define which side of good and sinfulness envelops the characters of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl. Blank verse-Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Examples:Shakespeares plays

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