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Paradise lost/poetry
Paradise lost/poetry vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abyss= an immeasurable profound depth or void | |
| adamantine= unyielding; inflexible | |
| amerced= punished by arbitrary penalty | |
| ammiral =an obsolete form of admiral | |
| apostate= one who forsakes his principles or beliefs | |
| ardent= displaying or characterized by strong enthusiasm or devotion | |
| arrogate= to take or claim without right | |
| asperse= to charge falsely or with malicious attempt | |
| baleful= evil; dire | |
| beatific= blissful; saintly | |
| bituminous= relating to or containing coal | |
| brooding= deeply or seriously thoughtful | |
| capacious= spacious; roomy | |
| carbuncle= ardent; usually sensuous; longing | |
| deluge= overrun with water | |
| dubious= of uncertain outcome | |
| elocution= the art of speaking clearly and effectiveley | |
| empyreal= celestial | |
| ensign= a sign, token, or emblem | |
| ethereal= heavenly equisite | |
| execrable= utterly detestable; abominable; abhorrent | |
| fealty= the loyalty that citizens owe to their country | |
| gloze= to explain away; extenuate; gloss over | |
| ignominy= dishonor; infamy | |
| impetuous= impulsive | |
| impious= lacking respect | |
| incumbent= the holder of an office | |
| indignation= anger aroused by something unjust | |
| infernal= of or relating to hell | |
| invoke= to call upon for assistance | |
| jaunting= making a short excursion | |
| jocund= cheerful disposition | |
| kine= plural form of cow | |
| lascivious= inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd | |
| marle= thin cloth used to cover wound | |
| maugre=notwithstanding; in spite of | |
| nocent= harmful; injurious | |
| obdurate= hardened against good morals | |
| opprobrious= outrageously disgraceful or shameful | |
| oracle= source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions | |
| penal= subject to or incurring punishment | |
| perfidious= deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful | |
| pernicious= insidiously harmful or ruinous | |
| phalanx= any closely ranked ranked crowd of people | |
| pilaster= a rectangular column | |
| pregnant= teeming or fertile; rich | |
| proem= a short introduction; preface | |
| profluent= flowing smoothly or abundantly forth | |
| progeny= a descendant or offspring | |
| propitious= presenting favorable conditions | |
| puissant= powerful; mighty; potent | |
| rancor= bitter, rankling resentment or ill will | |
| rapine= forcible seizure of another's property | |
| rivulet =small brook or stream | |
| rood= a cross as used in crucifixion | |
| sapient= wise; discerning | |
| satiate =to satisfy to the full | |
| sedulous= marked by care and persistent effort | |
| sottish= given to excessive drinking | |
| suppliant= asking humbly and earnestly | |
| tempestuous= tumultuous; stormy | |
| thrall= one under the control of another person | |
| transgress= to go beyond | |
| umbrage= offense; annoyance; displeasure | |
| unctuous= excessively smooth, suave, or smug; oily | |
| usurper= one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | |
| uxorious= excessively submissive or devoted to one's life | |
| vebial== easily excused or forgiven | |
| verdant= green with vegitation | |
| voluble= fluent, talkative | |
| vouchsafe= to allow or permit, as by favor | |
| welter= confusion; turmoil | |
| blank verse= metrically traditional, but without rhyme | |
| confessional poetry= a school of poetry where the poet may expose personal, taboom or difficult things about himself; dramatic monologue poetry often does this, but the poet is confessing within another persona's mind | |
| couplet= a two line stanza, or the same rhyme pattern in two conjoined lines | |
| dramatic monologue= a poem that dramatizes someone's thoughts and actions; the persona of the poem talks directly to "us" or an unseen other | |
| end rhyme= rhymed sound at the end of the line | |
| endstop= the line ends with a period or the feeling of a period | |
| foot= a group of 2 or 3 stresses and unstressed syllables | |
| formalism= following traditional, given poetic forms such as sonnets, villanelles | |
| free verse= without rhyme or structured metrical pattern | |
| iamb= a foot with an unaccented syllable and accented syllable | |
| internal rhyme= rhymed sound before the end of the line | |
| meter= the use of patterns of stressed and unstressed rhythms (or beats) in a poetic line sometimes following strict, traditional forms (or violating those forms in free verse) | |
| movement= the way lines flow together, speak to or against eachother, and pull us foreward in a poem | |
| ode= a poem that commemorates or celebrates; written for an occasion; classic Odes have three parts | |
| pentameter= a line with 5 feet; iambic pentameter therefore has 10 syllables (often used by Shakespeare) | |
| refrain= a repeating line/verse in a song or poem | |
| rhyme scheme= a repeated pattern of end rhymes; usually marked with letters of the alphabet (ABBA would mark a rhyme scheme in the second stanza of, say, dog/man/plan/fog; CDDC would mark a rhyme scheme in the second stanza of, say, map/press/dress/slap) | |
| scansion= scanning the rhythm of a line by locating patterns of feet with stressed and unstressed syllables | |
| sestet= a six line stanza (not usually the same rhyme pattern in each line, however) | |
| slant rhyme= substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme | |
| sonnet= 14 line poem; Shakespearean sonnet has one stanza (usually in iambic pentameter, 10 syllables) other English sonnets may have 4 stanzas (rhyme scheme--ABABCDCDEFEFGG); Italian sonnet has an octave (8 lines; ABBABBA) and a sestet (6 lines; CDECDE) | |
| stanza= a grouping of lines in a poem (much like a paragraph); the number of lines can follow a strict form, or be organically chosen as in free verse | |
| tension =the sense of conflict--I would, but I don't--I want, but I can't--the need for nature vs. a hectic city life--I should, but I'm not | |
| true rhyme= the last syllable rhyme sounds (and is usually spelled) exactly the same | |
| typographical rhymes= the white space in front of, in the middle of, or after lines creates rhythmic pauses and variations in meaning and emphasis | |
| villanelle= a 19 line form using only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern |
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