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Vocab Midterm
2017-18 School Year Nawrocki Vocab Midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capitulate | Verb- Surrender under agreed conditions |
| Torpid | Adj.- Slow and apathetic |
| Disquietude | Noun- Feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable |
| Gratitude | Noun- A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation |
| Folly | Noun- Foolish or senseless behavior |
| Prodigious | Adj.- So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe |
| Repine | Verb- To express discontent |
| Glut | Verb/Noun- Supply with an excess of; overeat or eat immodestly; the quality of being so abundant that prices fall |
| Hurlyburly | Noun- Noisy disorder and confusion |
| Flout | Verb- Scorn or show contempt for |
| Harbinger | Noun- Something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone; a sign of things to come |
| Gall | Verb/Noun- Bitterness of spirit |
| Compunction | Noun- Causing or feeling regret, guilt, or remorse |
| Largess | Noun- The bestowal of gifts or the gifts themselves |
| Mettle | Noun- Courage and fortitudes; the courage to carry on |
| Prate | Verb- To speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly |
| Cleave | Verb- To adhere closely; to remain faithful |
| Incarnadine | Verb- To make blood red |
| Equivocate | Verb- To use vague or ambiguous language, especially in order to avoid speaking directly or honestly |
| Clamour | Noun- A loud and harsh or strident noise |
| Symbolism | The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities |
| Adaptation | A written work that has been recast in a new form |
| Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness |
| Horatian | Nice, gentle satire where the audience can laugh at themselves |
| Juvenalian | Harsh, bitter satire with the intention to hurt or offend |
| Caricature (Hyperbole) | Distortion for emphasis or exaggeration |
| Diatribe (Invecture) | Direct attack without irony or sarcasm |
| Parody | Imitation which evokes amusement |
| Irony | The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite |
| Verbal irony | When the speaker's words are the opposite of what is intended |
| Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite |
| Reductio ad absurdum | A satire technique where the author agrees enthusiastically with the basic attitudes or assumptions he satirizes and by pushing it to an extreme, makes fun of it |
| Rhetoric | The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing |
| Logos | A logical argument that appeals to reasoning |
| Ethos | An appeal to ethics |
| Pathos | An emotional appeal |
| Antithesis | The opposition of ideas, words, or phrases against each other that express conflict |
| Meter | A regular pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in lines of poetry |
| Scansion | The action of scanning a line or verse to determine its rhythm |
| Iambic Pentameter | Meter with ten syllable lines with five iambs (unstressed, stressed) |
| Catalectic Trochaic Tetrameter | Rapid meter consisting of four feet of trochees (stressed, unstressed) |
| Aside | The part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience |
| Dramatic Irony | A plot device when the audience has knowledge that the character does not |
| Soliloquy | An utterance by a person who is talking to themself or is disregardful to others present |
| Stichomythia | Dramatic dialogue characterized by brief exchanges between two characters each of whom usually speaks one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion |
| Double-entendre | A word or expression used in a given context that can be understood in two ways |
| Pun | A play on words |
| Chorus | The group of actors in Greek drama who collectively comment on the action of the play |
| Situational Irony | What happens is the exact opposite of what was planned or expected |
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