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Languagearts vocab#2
| 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 an 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 meaning |
| denotation | the literal or primary meaning of a word |
| literal | taking words in their most basic, exact sense |
| figurative | taking words in a metaphoric 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 of a body (Latin for "head": caput) |
| defenestrate | to push someone out of a window (Latin for "window": fenestra) |
| suffocate | die or cause to die by lack of air or inability |
| exsanguinate | to to drain blood (latin for “blood” sanguinem |
| archaic | very old-fashioned |
| keen | to wail in grief for the dead |
| macabre | gruesome, horryfing |
| mournful | sorrowful, sad |
| premonition | a forewarning |
| entomb | to place in a tomb; bury |
| phantom | ghost; apparition; spectre |
| 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 undergroud tomb |
| noun | a part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea |
| pronoun | a part of speech that replaces the 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 averb |
| conjunction | a part of speech that links words, phrases, and clauses |
| coordinating conjunction | for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so |
| all forms of verb "be" | am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been |
| declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement |
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alma_6012
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