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LangArtsVocab2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| suspense | the increasingly strong feeling that something exciting or action-packed is about to happen |
| foreboding | the increasingly strong sense that something BAD is about to happen (Foreboding is a specific type of suspense) |
| confrontation | a hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties |
| point of view | a particular attitude or way of considering a matter |
| perspective | point of view |
| connotation | an idea or feeling associated with a work beyond its literal feeling |
| denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word |
| literal | taking words in their most basic, exact sense |
| figurative | taking words in a metaphorical sense |
| prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary, not poetic form |
| horror | a literary genre designed to scare the living snot out of you |
| disMEMBER | to chop a body into pieces |
| deCAPITATE | to chop a head off a body (Latin for head:"caput") |
| deFENESTRATE | to push someone out a window (Latin for window: "fenestra") |
| suffocate | die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe |
| exSANGUINATE | to drain blood (Latin for blood: "sanguinem") |
| archaic | very old-fashioned |
| keen | to wail in grief for the dead |
| macabre | gruesome, horrifying |
| mournful | sorrowful, sad |
| premonition | a forewarning |
| entomb | to place in a tomb, bury |
| phantom | ghost, apparition, specter |
| amulet | protective charm |
| conjure | to produce as if by magic |
| exhume | to dig something buried out of the earth |
| stench | an offensive smell |
| crypt | an underground tomb |
| noun | a part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea |
| pronoun | a part of speech that replaces a noun |
| verb | a part of speech that shows action or being |
| adjective | a part of speech that describes a noun or a pronoun |
| adverb | a part of speech that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
| conjunction | a part of speech that links words, phrases, and clauses |
| coordinating conjunction | for, and, nor, but, yet, so |
| all forms of the word 'be' | am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been |
| declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement |
| interrogative sentence | a sentence that states a question |
| imperative sentence | a request or a demand |
| exclamatory sentence | a sentence that shows emotion |
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sarah.christman
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