Year 10 Exam Vocab Flashcards
Escapism
The tendency to seek relief and distraction from unpleasant realities especially through entertainment or other more appealing realities.
Subversion
The undermining of power or authority of an established system or institutions.
Censure
To express severe disapproval, or anger toward, someone or something.
Metaphor
A direct, non literal comparison between 2 subjects. One is named the other.
Parallel Structure
The repetition of a very similar sentence structure in succession.
Motif
A recurrent symbolic element in a text such as a word, sound, action word, or event used to enrich and embed themes.
Tone
The overall feeling of a text, affected by the author’s attitude and conveyed through dictation
Connotation
Ideas and emotion associated with words or phrases beyond their literal meaning.
Simlie
A more indirect non- literal comparison
Personification
The attribution of human traits or characteristics to a non-human subject, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Victorian Era
The period of British history roughly corresponding with Queen Victoria’s reign characterized by strict organizing principles and expectations of gender and class
Outsider
A person who does not belong to a particular circle or group. This character is somehow different and they stand on the edge of belonging.
The uncanny
Objects, people or things that are strange yet familiar, unrecognizable yet recognizable.
The sublime
Experiences that are beautiful not because they are enjoyable but thrilling because they are terrifying and overwhelming.
Byronic Hero
A person who is at once charismatic, mysterious and perceptive, and yet arrogant, lacking in self-control, darkly brooding, standing in counterpoint to conventional modes of behaviour.
