vocab list 1

Question 1

allocation

Answer 1

to divide and give out for a special reason to particular people or things

Question 2

ascetic

Answer 2

a person who practices severe self-discipline and abstention

Question 3

beguile

Answer 3

to charm or enchant someone sometimes in a deceptive way

Question 4

crass

Answer 4

lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence (insensitive)

Question 5

defray

Answer 5

provide money to pay (a cost of expense)

Question 6

dint

Answer 6

an impression or hollow in a surface

Question 7

enjoin

Answer 7

instruct or urge someone to do something

Question 8

envoy

Answer 8

a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission

Question 9

interloper

Answer 9

a person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong.

Question 10

vicarious

Answer 10

experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person (indirect, second hand)

Question 11

perspective

Answer 11

a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

Question 12

first-person

Answer 12

the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view

Question 13

second-person

Answer 13

a little-used technique of narrative in which the action is driven by a character ascribed to the reader, one known as you

Question 14

third-person limited

Answer 14

Focussing a third-person narration through the eyes of a single character.

Question 15

third-person omniscient

Answer 15

Multiple characters’ emotions and inner thoughts are available to the reader

Question 16

tone

Answer 16

the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

Question 17

mood

Answer 17

inducing or suggestive of a particular feeling or state of mind

Question 18

free indirect style

Answer 18

technique of presenting a character’s voice partly mediated by the voice of the author

Question 19

setting

Answer 19

the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place

Question 20

diction

Answer 20

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

Question 21

dramatic irony

Answer 21

tension created by the contrast between what a character says or think and what the audience or readers know to be true; words/actions take different meaning for the reader than the character

Question 22

situational irony

Answer 22

a pointed discrepancy between what seems fitting or expected in a story and what actually happens

Question 23

verbal irony

Answer 23

when a character/speaks says one thing but means something else. (sarcasm)

Question 24

theme

Answer 24

an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.

Question 25

imagery

Answer 25

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.