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English final rev
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avarice | extreme greed for wealth and material gain |
| usurers | a person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest |
| extort | to obtain something by force or threats |
| ostentation | boastful dusplay |
| parsimony | stinginess |
| fete | an elaborate party |
| profuse | exuberantly plentiful; abundant lavish extravagant |
| ruddy | a fresh healthy red color |
| spectral | of or like a ghost, spooky |
| prostrate | lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward |
| blithe | carefree |
| connate | existing naturally |
| chaos | complete disorder and confusion |
| aversion | a strong dislike or disinclination |
| suffrage | vote or voting |
| divines | clergy |
| dilapidated | in disrepair |
| sublime | noble or inspiring |
| superfluous | unnecessary, excessive |
| evitable | avoidable |
| expedient | convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but considered improper or immoral |
| posterity | all future generations |
| alacrity | speed |
| theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic |
| parallelism | expresses ideas of equal importance in phrases or sentences that are worded in a similar way |
| personification | The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality |
| repetition | repeat a word or phrase for emphasis |
| iambic pentameter | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
| paradox | A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true |
| anecdote | a very short story used to illustrate a point |
| anaphora | repetition of words at the beginning of a sentence |
| setting | The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes plac |
| symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. |
| allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
| allusion | a reference to a person, event, or place in history, religious texts or literature |
| irony | The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
| oral tradition | stories told by word of mouth |
| alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
| loaded language | emotionally charged words |
| memorable line | a line that leaves the reader with a special emotion |
| myth | explains the unexplainable |
| extended metaphor | A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. |
| deductive reasoning | use facts to lead the reader to a probable conclusion |
| rhetorical question | a question that does not call for an answer because the answer is obvious |
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