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2b Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| flippant | not showing a respectful/ serious attitude |
| patronizing | kind action with betraying feeling/not genuine |
| facetious | treating serious situations with inappropriate humor |
| inflammatory | arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings |
| Detached | separate or disconnect |
| Cynical | Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity |
| Incisive | Intelligently analytical and clear-thinking |
| Scornful | feeling or expressing contempt or derision |
| effusive | expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner |
| Colloquial | ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal |
| compassionate | having compassion |
| Impartial | not partial or biased ; fair, just |
| Insipid | without distinctive, interesting or stimulating qualities |
| Pretentious | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated |
| vibrant | full of energy |
| moralistic | characterized by or expressive of a concern with morality |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language |
| Sardonic | Grimly mocking/disdainfully or skeptically humorous |
| Contentious | Likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| insolent | rude, arrogant lack of respect |
| apostrophe | an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified) |
| Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. |
| allusive | working by suggestion rather than explicit mention |
| diction | word choice |
| syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language |
| Tone | the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc |
| theme | an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature |
| prose | written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. |
| parody | an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. |
| dramatic irony | the audience's understanding clashes with the understanding of the characters |
| situational irony | actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended |
| dialect | regional versions of one language |
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