MC Vocab List 2B Flashcards
FOWLER
Person who hunts wildfowl.
AVAIL
Help or benefit.
PASTORAL
Work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.
ELEGY
Poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
ODE
Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject.
BALLAD
Poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
AESTHETIC
Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
PIETY
Quality of being religious or reverent.
FERVOR
Intense and passionate feeling.
DEFTLY
In a way that is neatly skillful and quick in movement.
LOZENGE
Rhombus or diamond shape.
NARRATIVE
Spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
LYRIC
Expressing the writers emotions.
AMBIVALENT
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
ALLUSION
Expression designed to calling something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
SYNECDOCHE
Figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or the whole for a part.
BRAMBLES
Prickly scrambling vine or shrub.
DIGITALIS
Drug that stimulate the heart muscle.
STRIDENT
In an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way.
SUSTAINED
Continuing for an extended period or without interruption.
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Literary style in which a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.
DEFERENTIAL
Respectful.
SEDATE
Quiet and rather dull.
AFFLUENCE
State of having a great deal of money; wealth.
CONTEXTUALIZE
Place or study in context.
ESTRANGED
Alienated.
IMPROPRIETY
Improper language, behavior, or character.
ALOOF
Not friendly or forthcoming.
AUSTERE
Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance.
