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English Fall Final14
Fall Final English Vocabulary 2014
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| drama | a story written to be performed by actors; script made up of dialogue and stage directions |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter with ten syllables per line and every second syllable is stressed |
| direct characterization | author states character traits |
| indirect characterization | authors give clues through what the character says and does as well as what others think about the character |
| dramatic foil | a character whose purpose is to show off another character |
| round characters | characters who have many characters traits, like real people |
| flat characters | one-dimensional characters |
| static characters | characters within a story who remain the same |
| dynamic characters | characters that change somehow during the course of the plot |
| pun | humorous use of a word with two meanings |
| dramatic irony | a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader/audience knows to be true |
| verbal irony | words that are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant |
| situational irony | an event that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience |
| allusion | reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| anticlimax | turning point that is a letdown; point when audience/reader learns the story will not turn out in a way that completely resolves the conflict |
| atmosphere | feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| oxymoron | a combination of words that contradict each other |
| theme | central message or insight into life revealed through literary work |
| abroad | out and about; all around |
| addle | jumbled |
| bandying | verbal strife |
| banished | send someone away from place forever |
| bedeck | decorate; adorn |
| bier | frame/stand for burial or a coffin |
| consortest | associate with |
| corse | corpse |
| dissemblers | to conceal the truth or real nature of |
| effeminate | foolish; powerless |
| eloquence | fluent or persuasive speaker |
| exile | to send away from a place and never return |
| jocund | merry; joyful; cheerful |
| lenity | mildness; gentleness |
| perjury | hollow lie; untruth |
| plague | calamity; affliction; scourge |
| sojourn | reside; visit |
| sped | finished; done for |
| strategems | plots; attacks |
| tributary | paying a tribute |
| inundation | outpouring; overflowing |
| prorogue | defer, delay |
| chide | rebuke |
| charnel | burial vault |
| surcease | cease; stop |
| lamentable | sorrowful |
| presage | predict |
| apothecary | pharmacist; druggist |
| obsequies | funeral rites |
| inexorable | unstoppable; severe |
| conjuration | demand, entreaty |
| amorous | expressing love |
| sepulchre | burial place |
| jointure | inheritance; marriage settlement |
| covetous | jealousy eager to possess something |
| destitute | poor |
| impropriety | an improper act; indeceny |
| ruddy | a healthy reddish color, particularly from outdoor life |
| tremulous | quavering; trembling |
| veneration | a feeling of awe or reverence |
| agitation | turmoil |
| avarice | extreme greed for wealth |
| capacious | spacious, roomy; able to hold much |
| despoil | to take by force; to rob; to loot |
| irrepressible | not capable of being controlled |
| supposition | a theory |
| apoplectic | extremely agitated; nearing a stroke |
| declension | a downward slope or bend |
| execrable | deserving to be disliked; of very poor quality |
| factious | causing strife within a group |
| sidled | moved in a sneaky or secretive manner |
| opulence | seeming to be abundantly wealthy or rich |
| bereft | deprived; parted from, abandoned |
| detestation | intense hatred |
| persevered | to carry on (persist) in the face of discouragement or difficulty |
| exrescence | a growth on the body or an organ of the body |
| besought | past tense of beseech; to ask; beg |
| feign | to portray; imitate |
Created by:
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