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The Pearl Vocab

TermDefinition
Feinted fake; pretended
Avarice greed for riches
Indigent poverty-stricken; poor
Suppliant one who asks humbly or pleads
Poultice a soft, moist mass of herbs applied to the body as medicine
Undulating moving in waves, swelling
Writhed twisted and turned; twisted about
Judicious showing good judgment
Lucent clear and bright; crystal
Furtive done quickly; secretly
Collusion a secret agreement
Coagulating thickening
Lethargy tired dullness; lacking energy
Lament expression of grief or sorrow
Leprosy infectious disease
Germane closely connected; related to
Freshet flood caused by heavy rain or melted snow
Amulet locket, carved image, or other small object worn to ward off danger
Theme a central idea in a piece of writing
Motif an object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work
Characterization literary device used step by step literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story
Conflict a struggle between two opposing forces
Symbolism use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are deferent from their literal sense
Parable a simple story that relays a moral lesson
Allegory stories in which characters, objects, and events hold fixed symbolic meaning
Setting environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place
Metaphor makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristcs
Simile makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things
Personification a thing, an idea or an animal i given human attributes
Imagery use of figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses
Created by: irnicole18
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