Vocab 4

Question 1

State of decay shown in either the inferior literary quality or the looser moral standards of any period’s works compared with a preceding period. Opposition to nature: systematic cultivation of drugs, cosmetics, catholic ritual, unnatural sexual practices, and sterility and artificially in all things. Closely associated with the doctrines of Aestheticisms.

Answer 1

Decadence

Question 2

A philosophically sceptical approach to the possibility of coherent meaning in languages, initiated by French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Answer 2

Deconstruction

Question 3

The underlying structure of meaning in any utterance as opposed to the observable arrangement in which it’s presented.

Answer 3

Deep structure

Question 4

Incomplete foot in a line of metrical verse. The term, sometimes applies to catalectic lines, is misleadingly pejorative, since the deficiency is usually not in the verse itself but rather in the metrical analysis that attempts to make the metre conform to an abstract scheme of feet

Answer 4

Defective foot

Question 5

The clearing up or ‘untying’ of the complications of the plot in a play or story; usually a final scene or chapter in which mysteries, confusions, and doubtful destinies are clarified

Answer 5

Denouement

Question 6

Mark placed above or below a letter or syllable to specify it's distinctive sound. Acute accent é, grave accent è, circumflex ô, umlaut ö, and cedilla c. 
Macron (-) long syllables
Breve (--) short syllables 
Virgule (') for stressed syllables 
x for unstressed

Answer 6

Diacritic

Question 7

Choice of words used in a literary work.
Formal/colloquial
Abstract/concrete
Literal/figurative

Answer 7

Diction

Question 8

Narrative in which the narrator falls asleep and dreams the events of the tale

Answer 8

Dream vision (dream allegory)

Question 9

A metrical unit of verse, having one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, as in the word carefully

Answer 9

Dactyl

Question 10

1. Art of formal reasoning, especially the procedure of seeking truth through debate or discussion 2. Reasoning or logical structure that holds together a continuous argument or exposition. 3. The interplay of contradictory principles of opposed forces

Answer 10

Dialectic