A-ROT Flashcards
Ambivalent
Having 2 or more emotions
Conflicted emotions
Don’t know weather to go to football game or do homework
Equivocate
Hedging
To go back and forth between two ideas
Ambiguous
2 or more meanings, unclear
Nihilism
Don’t believe in morality
Rejections of all distinctions and moral values
n. a nihilist
Nepotism
Favoring people who are related to you
Narcissism
Being in love with yourself
Ostensibly
Seemingly
How something appears to be
Prosaic
Ordinary, dull
Symbol(ism)
An object that stands for something beyond itself
An idea or emotion
Metaphor
A connection between two things where you see one thing in terms of the other thing
Similie
An explicit comparison of disparate things
Disparate
Totally different but not necessarily opposites (Bryar’s head is a cue ball,… They aren’t opposites but they are completely different)
Motif
A recurrent thematic element (representing a theme)
Unlike theme it can occur across an authors works. The author always talks about dogs.
Explicit
Fully & clearly expressed
Implicit
Meaning is implied and not direct
The meaning is kind of insinuated
Denotation
What something means (actual)
Connotation
What feelings a word brings, what baggage it brings for you personally or society
Juxtapose
To put two things side by side to show something meaningful
Conflate
To confuse one thing for another
Capitalism
Economic system where markets are king
Paradox
2 simultaneously true things that are contradictory
e.g. (“If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love” Mother Theresea)
Nuance(s)
Variation or a detail
Evunkular
- Like your benevolent uncle
- a friendly guy who seems harmless is evunkular
Theme
A unifying idea developed in a work of art
Inherently
An essential element—part of somethings nature
Delineate
- to make obvious
- taking the time to explain something to someone
- to sketch out or depict how something needs to happen or what needs to be done
Imbued
Saturated
The text is imbued with meaning
Lucid
- Clear
- Easy to understand
Pellucid
Emitting the maximum amount of light
Esoterical
Understood by only a small group of people
Secular
Not having to do with religion
Subsequent
- as a result of
- coming later on in an order, but kind of a cause and effect thing as well
We had a great soccer practice yesterday. Subsequently we are going to win today.
Vernacular
- Common, ordinary (vs. the formal)
- the common speech v. The formal
Bohemian
- Living an artistic life style
- someone who is against social norms
Perfunctory
- Doing something without really caring how it ends up
- half-assed
- usually brief, quick
Vehement
Insistent about something
Passionate
Showing strong feeling
Cadence
Balanced
Rhythmic flow
Beat
Mountain bikers are less cadence than road bikers.
Soporific
- Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep
- the thing that you are describing is what is soporific
Recurring
Not reoccurring
Happening again and again
Aesthetic
Adj. Given principles that give something beauty and taste
Noun. Anyones guiding sense of principles regarding beauty and taste
Guiding principles of beauty and taste
Aesthetically pleasing- its aesthetically pleasing to have lights in the parking lot
Propitious
- Something that indicates favorable circumstances
- Presenting favorable circumstances
- Anything that promises things are going to be good in the future
Allegory
- A longer metaphor
- Comparing an entire story to another story
- or one sequence of events to another
David & Galiath
- David is champion of philistines
- volunteers to fight Goliath
- David goes with five rocks and a slingshot
- he wins because God is on his side
Cain & Abel
- brothers, sons of Adam and Eve
- giving sacrifices to God
- God accepted Abel’s didn’t accept Cain’s
- So Cain killed Abel because of jealosy
- when God came to Cain he replied am I your brothers keeper?
- first murder
Job
- test of faithfulness to God
- one of the most faithful of Gods followers
- Satan says Job wouldn’t really be faithful to you if his life was hard
- God gives Satan permission to test Job
- Job resists temptation for a long time all of his sons died
- Job eventually gives in and curses the day he was born
- It turns out okay, God says its okay
> usually mentioned when talking about patience
Lazarus
- Jesus rose Lazarus from the dead
- when someone is referred to as Lazarus, they are revived
Lot’s Wife
- angels show up to sotem, town of evil doers
- God wipes out evil doers
- angels wake up Lot and run away
- Lots wife looks back, she was told not to
- she turns into salt pillar
- metaphor for not looking back
- AKA don’t long for your old way of life
Recurring
Not reoccurring
Happening again and again
Aesthetic
Adj. Given principles that give something beauty and taste
Noun. Anyones guiding sense of principles regarding beauty and taste
Guiding principles of beauty and taste
Aesthetically pleasing- its aesthetically pleasing to have lights in the parking lot
Propitious
- Something that indicates favorable circumstances
- Presenting favorable circumstances
- Anything that promises things are going to be good in the future
Allegory
- A longer metaphor
- Comparing an entire story to another story
- or one sequence of events to another
David & Goliath
- Goliath is champion of philistines
- David volunteers to fight Goliath
- David goes with five rocks and a slingshot
- he wins because God is on his side
Cain & Abel
- brothers, sons of Adam and Eve
- giving sacrifices to God
- God accepted Abel’s didn’t accept Cain’s
- So Cain killed Abel because of jealosy
- when God came to Cain he replied am I your brothers keeper?
- first murder
Job
- test of faithfulness to God
- one of the most faithful of Gods followers
- Satan says Job wouldn’t really be faithful to you if his life was hard
- God gives Satan permission to test Job
- Job resists temptation for a long time all of his sons died
- Job eventually gives in and curses the day he was born
- It turns out okay, God says its okay
> usually mentioned when talking about patience
Zeugma
a word or phrase that is understood to modify 2(or more) words or phrases, BUT they must be understood differently by the reader.
- I hit abby and the lights.
- The farmers grew potatoes, corn, and bored
Reticent
- holding back
- more because of uncertainty rather than reluctance because reluctant usually has something negative affiliated with it.
Euphony
Pleasant sounds
Cacophony
Harsh sounds
Onomatopoeia
- sounds like what it means
- hiss, snap, bang, laser
- you basically say the word to define it
Rhythm
- Actual sounds
- flow of the actual words
Meter
- The design of what types of sounds will be employed
- iambic
- anapestic
- spondee
- trochee
Iambic Pantameter
Five iambs -/-/-/-/-/
Anapestic
- three syllables with accent on the third
- “if you go to the woods and you seek a gar-age”
Spondee
-two syllables, equal
Trochee
- two syllables emphasis on the first
- stop it!
Phonetic Intensives
- a group of words whose sounds somehow connect to the meaning
- similar to onomatopoeia but do not always refer explicitly to sounds
- words of light
- flame flicker flash
Alliteration
- Repetition of beginning constant sounds
- rhyme or reason
- safe and sound
- tried and true
Assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds
- mad as a hatter
- free and easy
Consonance
- repetition of final consonant sounds
- short and sweet
- odds and ends
- first to last
Rhyme
-repetition of accented vowel sounds and succeeding consonant sounds
Enjambment
-when a line doesn’t end in punctuation but rather continues on to the next line
Personification
-giving non-human things human-like qualities
Apostrophe
-addressing someone dead, or absent, or non-human as if he/she/it were there and listening
Metonomy
- using something closely related to the thing for the thing
- “the White house said today…”
Synecdochy
- using a part for the whole
- referring to people by a particular body part for example head count, eyeballs
Imagery
-when words paint a picture and engage the senses
Auditory Imagery
Involving sound
Olfactory Imagery
Smell
Gustatory Imagery
Taste
Tactile Imagery
Touch
Kinesthetic Imagery
Muscle movement
Verse vs. Free-verse
Verse: has meter
Free-verse: non-metrical poetry
No fixed form
Prose poems
Philistines
-people who are full of themselves
Rhyme Scheme
-Set pattern of rhymes at the end of lines
Elizabethan Sonnet
- three quatrains and a couplet
- ababcdcdefefgg
- iambic pantameter
Petrarchan Sonnet
- division of thought between octet and sestet
- abba abba cdcdcd
- abba abba cdecde
Four horsemen
- Represents the coming of the apocalypse
- Death, plague, famine, war
