Lit 11 Vocab Mr barber

Narrator

Someone who tells a story

Hamartia

Fatal flaw that leads to the downfall of a hero

Archetype

Typical example of someone/something

Unreliable narrator

Any narrator who misleads readers

Dynamic Character

Character who changes and evolves throughout the story

Static character

Character who remains the same throughout the story

Incongruity

Out of place

Ratiocination

process of exact thinking

Environmental

Relating to the natural world and the impact of humans

Determinism

Assumption that all events in the universe occur in only 1 possible way

Milieu

Someones social environment

Socioeconomic landscape

Social conditions/ cultural structures/ or economics that characterize a place at a given time

Liminality

Being in-between states

Arcadian

Relating to an ideal rural paradise

Sagacity

Quality of having lots of wisdom

Deduction

Coming up with a conclusion by reasoning

Imperturbable

Impossible to pass through/enter

Inscrutable

Impossible to understand

Melancholy

feeling of pensive sadness

Mercurial

Liable to sudden + unpredictable change

Someone/something that is inconstant

Approbation

Official agreement/acceptance

Laconic

Brief and to the point

Primp

Dressed/groomed with elaborate care

Anemic

Lacking vigor/enegry

Insinuate

Introduce/suggest something indirectly

Incipient

Only partly in existence, imperfectly formed

Idealist

Someone who envisions an ideal world rather than a real one

Utopia

Imagined place/ state of things where everything is perfect

Dystopia

Imagined place/ state where there is great suffering/injustice

Clauses

building blocks of sentences, consisting of a subject and a verb (predicate) that expresses an action or state of being

Independent Clause

Expresses a complete thought, can be a stand alone sentence eg. She studied

Dependent Clause

Needs an independent clause cuz it alone does not express a complete idea, still has a subj and verb tho. eg, because she had a test.

Phrases

group of words that lacks a subject, a verb, or both.

Noun Phrase

acts as a noun eg. The fast, red car zoomed by

Verb Phrase

A verb and helping verbs eg, he was eager to eat dinner.

Prepositional phrase

starts wth prepostion eg. The keys are on the table

Adjective Phrase

describes a noun

Adverb phrase

modiied verb, adj, or adverb

Participle phrase

begins with verb ending in -ing or -ed, acting as an adj

Adjective clause

modifies noun → says which one, what kind about the noun. Eg. “The horse that he rode was a champion”

Adverb Clause

modifies verb or adj → answers how, under what conditions or why. Usually begins with when, after. since, because, altough. EG “I left because I had another engagement”

Noun Clause

acts as noun eg. Whatever I do seems to be wrong.