MC Vocab List 2B

Question 1

FOWLER

Answer 1

Person who hunts wildfowl.

Question 2

AVAIL

Answer 2

Help or benefit.

Question 3

PASTORAL

Answer 3

Work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.

Question 4

ELEGY

Answer 4

Poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Question 5

ODE

Answer 5

Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject.

Question 6

BALLAD

Answer 6

Poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

Question 7

AESTHETIC

Answer 7

Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

Question 8

PIETY

Answer 8

Quality of being religious or reverent.

Question 9

FERVOR

Answer 9

Intense and passionate feeling.

Question 10

DEFTLY

Answer 10

In a way that is neatly skillful and quick in movement.

Question 11

LOZENGE

Answer 11

Rhombus or diamond shape.

Question 12

NARRATIVE

Answer 12

Spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

Question 13

LYRIC

Answer 13

Expressing the writers emotions.

Question 14

AMBIVALENT

Answer 14

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Question 15

ALLUSION

Answer 15

Expression designed to calling something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.

Question 16

SYNECDOCHE

Answer 16

Figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or the whole for a part.

Question 17

BRAMBLES

Answer 17

Prickly scrambling vine or shrub.

Question 18

DIGITALIS

Answer 18

Drug that stimulate the heart muscle.

Question 19

STRIDENT

Answer 19

In an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way.

Question 20

SUSTAINED

Answer 20

Continuing for an extended period or without interruption.

Question 21

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Answer 21

Literary style in which a character’s thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.

Question 22

DEFERENTIAL

Answer 22

Respectful.

Question 23

SEDATE

Answer 23

Quiet and rather dull.

Question 24

AFFLUENCE

Answer 24

State of having a great deal of money; wealth.

Question 25

CONTEXTUALIZE

Answer 25

Place or study in context.

Question 26

ESTRANGED

Answer 26

Alienated.

Question 27

IMPROPRIETY

Answer 27

Improper language, behavior, or character.

Question 28

ALOOF

Answer 28

Not friendly or forthcoming.

Question 29

AUSTERE

Answer 29

Severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance.