Vocab!

Provocative

causing annoyance, anger, or another strong reaction (often sexual), especially deliberately.

Extol

to praise highly

Quell

to calm, pacify

Brawn

muscular strength

Efface

to erase

Plaintive

sounding sad or mournful

Veneration

great respect; reverence

Brazenly

doing something in a bold and shameless way

Copious

abundant, plentiful

Artisan

someone skillful with their hands

Furtive

attempting to avoid notice or attention

Glutton

someone who consumes too much food or drink

Ardent

enthusiastic, passionate

Engender

to create; to cause

Delineate

to describe accurately

Nefarious

extreme wickedness

Querulous

grumbling; grumpy

Labyrinthine

irregular and twisting

Pugnacious

eager to fight

entreat

to ask someone earnestly to do something

assail

to attack with word or force

fecund

fertile, productive

deride

to ridicule

idyllic

naturally peaceful

distend

to swell; to extend

beguile

to charm to enchant, often in a deceptive way

expedite

to speed up the progress of

decorous

proper: in good taste

vacuous

lacking ideas or intelligence

didactic

intended to teach

conjecture

to form an opinion or reach a conclusion based on limited information

pentient

repentant or showing sorrow or regret for something

histrionic

overly dramatic

round character

character that has multiple charteristics

flat character

one characteristic (typically steroetypical)

dynamic character

character that changes

static character

character that does not change

diction

how the author uses words

denotation

whatever a word LITERaLLY means

connotation

emotions and associations to a word

syntax

arrangement of words in a sentence

prose

ordinary form of wrtitng (essays, short stories, novels)

simple sentence

one independent clause

compound sentence

two or more independent clauses

complex sentence

1 independent clause, 1 or more dependent clauses

compound-complex sentence

at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses

periodic sentence

sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

cumulative sentence

a sentence in which the main independent clause is near the beginning, with dependents following

rhetoric

persuasive language (anything persuasive)

rhetorical triangle

analyzes the relationship amongst speaker, subject, and audience

appeal to ethos

appeal to establish credibility

appeal to pathos

appeal to emotions

appeal to logos

appeal to logic

inductive reasoning

come up with a hypothesis based on observations

deductive reasoning

given a hypothesis, prove it

stanza

paragrpahs in poetry

quatrain

stanza that has 4 lines

meter

the number and types of stresses in a line

foot

basic unit of measurement for poetry

alliteration

repetition of initial consonant sounds

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds with a different vowel sounds before it

near/slant rhyme

when things almost ryhme

apostrophe

poem or speech directed towards somebody who is no there

end rhyme

when things rhyme at the end of a line

internal rhyme

rhymes within the line

Antithesis

parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas

chiasmus

parallel structures, swapping positions of words

anaphora

repeating something at the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, etc

synecdoche

when you substitute something part of the whole for the whole

metonomy

using something closely associated with the whole to represent the whole

exasperate

to annoy thorughly

upbraid

to scold

benevolent

generous, kind

corroborate

to confirm and back up with evidence

incandesent

very lively ad impressive; to give off heat or light

laud

to praise; to applaud

derision

contemptuous

servile

having or showing an excessive willingness to serve others

bucolic

charmingly rural

belabor

to go over repeatedly to an absurd extent

insolent

showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

sycophantic

behaving or done in a servile way in order to gain an advantage

poignant

evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

despondent

in low spirits from loss of hope or courage

strident

shrill, high pitched

soporific

causing sleep, very boring

stupefied

to make unable to think clearly

convivial

fond of partying

fabricate

to lie

malleable

easy to shape or bend

affronted

to be offended

nonchalant

not showing any concern or worry

pretentious

making ridiculous claims of importance

gesticulate

to make gestures, especially when speaking

conflagration

a huge fire; inferno

exalt

to glorify

exult

to celebrate

lugubrious

looking or sounding sad and dismal

insatiable

incapable of being satisfied

assuage

to sooth, to relieve