English 10 - Vocab / Lit Term List #9

English 10 - Vocab / Lit Term List #89

Apparition

n. - a ghost or ghostlike image of a person

Assailable

adj. - not defended or capable of being defended

Blaspheme

v. - speak irreverently about God or sacred things

Contriver

n. - a person who makes plans

Disjoint

v. - disturb the cohesion or organization of, take apart

Dolour

n. - a state of great sorrow or distress

Equivocate

v. - use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself

Incarnadine

n. - a bright crimson or pinkish-red color

Prattler

n. - someone who talks for a long time about things that are silly or not important 

Unsanctified

adj. - not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled

Apostrophe

figure of speech that directly expresses an absent or imaginary person or abstraction

Assonance

repetition of same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds

Epic

a long narrative poem about the deeds of Gods and heroes

Free Verse

poetry not written in a regular pattern or meter or rhyme

Irony (dramatic, situational, verbal)

Dramatic - contradiction between what a character thinks and what the read of audience know to be true 

Situational - when the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of someone's expectation 

Verbal - words used to suggest the opposite if what is meant

Meter

rhythmical pattern determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats in each line