Vocab 3 and Greek terms

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Intuition

The ability to perceive and know things without conscious reasoning.

Rational

Able to understand or think reasonably or with logic

Romantic movement

The revolt in the late 18th century and early 19th century against the artistic, political, and philosophical principles that had become associated with neoclassicism: characterized in literature, music, painting, etc., by freedom of form, emphasis on feeling, originality, and the creative imagination and artist's own personality and sympathetic interest in nature, medievalism, the common man. Etc.

Enlightenment

Philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by the rejection of common, social, religious, and political ideas with an emphasis on rationalism and humanism.

Anathema

Someone who is rejected or shunned

Surrealism

Cultural movement that was developed in Europe after WW1 where artists depicted illogical scenes

Pasture

Plants, such as grass, grown for feeding especially of grazing animals

Villanelle

A highly structured poem made of 5 tercets followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and refrains.

Picaresque

Relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

amaglan

A blend of elements

Disprized

Undervalue, scorn

Enjambment

The running on of a sentence from one line to the next, with little to no pause

Supplants

To take the pace of; supersede especially through force or plotting. Or to uproot in order to replace with something else

Scruples

A feeling of hesitancy, doubt or uneasiness arising from difficulty in deciding what is right or proper, ethical, etc

Choler

Anger or ill humor

Pallbearers

One of the persons who attend to the coffin at a funeral

Ritualistically

something done with excessive devotion and ceremony

Introjection

to incorporate unconsciously into the psyche and focus aggressive energy upon the image rather than the object

Enterprise

A bold, difficult, or important undertaking

Didactic

used or intended for teaching or instruction

Annals

A written account of events year by year in a chronological order

Xanthus

In Greek myth, a river scalded by Hephaestus, God of fire

Alarum

Any noisy or confused situation

Philistinism

A person regarded as smugly narrow and conventional in views and tastes, lacking in and indifferent to cultural and aesthetic values

Transference

A reproduction of emotions relating to repressed experiences, especially of childhood, and the substitution of another person, especially in the psychoanalyst for the object of the repressed impulses

Malevolent

Having or showing ill will

Intercalate

To insert or alter

Cupidity

Strong desire, especially for wealth; avarice; greed

Johnsonian

of live or characteristic of Sameul Johnson or his style

Acumen

A keenness and quickness to sharpen understanding and dealing with a situation

Epitrope

You ironically grant permission

Example: “Let her go, let her go, God bless her! All right, go on, have a good time, kill yourself.”

Euphemism

You substitute less pungent words for harsh ones, with excellent ironic effect. \n

Example: The schoolmaster corrected the slightest fault with his birch reminder. After a gallon of whiskey, he \n was slightly indisposed.

Zeugma

Yoking.” You yoke two words so that one is accurate and the other is an ironic misfit (a favorite irony of Edward Gibbon’s in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire). \n

Examples:

Waging war and peace. \n Laws the wily tyrant dictated and obeyed. \n Pacified by gifts and threats. \n A blessing they enjoyed and feared.

Antithesis

You strongly and closely contrast your ideas. \n

Example: From rags to riches, from beans to beef, from water to wine. \n Man proposes, God disposes. \n A world in a grain of sand, a heaven in a wild flower. \n The world will have little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. \n It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Chiasmus

“A crossing”- from the Greek letter chi, x, a cross. (Also called antimitabole). You “cross” the terms of one clause by reversing their order in the next. \n

Example: Ask not what your country can do for you: ask what you can do for your country. \n What you write may mark your place in society- or place your mark on it.