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| 14867998887 | Anecdote (n)/Anecdotal (adj)/Anecdotally (adv) | short story or event, often proposed to support or demonstrate a point. Ex: Louv uses the anecdote of his friend buying a car with the option to add-on a backseat tv to illustrate a situation that most parents have experienced, in order to demonstrate how easy it is to step further away from nature. | 0 | |
| 14868013171 | Dichotomy (n)/Dichotomize (v)/ Dichotomous(adj)/ Dichotomously (adv) | a difference between two opposite things/ideas/ examples; a division into two opposite groups. In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the protagonist, Kurtz, presents an example of dichotomy, as he is a modern, civilized man, but becomes savage and brutal while living in the HOD. | 1 | |
| 14868038110 | Didacticism (n)/Didact (n)/Didactic (adj)/ Didactically (adv) | designed or intended to teach Pilgrim's Progress, a religious allegory, is an example of a didacticism. At times, Neusner affects a didactic tone in "Social Contract." Neusner advocates students become auto-didacts. | 2 | |
| 14868043814 | Dogma (n)/ Dogmatic (adj)/ Dogmatically (adv)/ Dogmatize (v) | a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted without questions or doubt a belief or set of beliefs taught by a religious organization. Ex: The speaker lost credibility as he presented the idea as dogma, rather than hypothesis. | 3 | |
| 14868049721 | Connotation (n)/ Connote (v)/ Connotative (adj)/ Connotatively (adv) | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. "Wall Street" literally means a street situated in Lower Manhattan but connotatively it refers to "wealth" and "power". "Politician" has a negative connotation of wickedness and insincerity while "statesperson" connotes sincerity | 4 | |
| 14868070625 | Denotation (n)/Denote (v)/Denotative (adj) | A direct, specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea. Ex: discriminate (v): connotation vs. denotation ○ Denotation of the word discriminate = to | 5 | |
| 14868081578 | Enumerate (v)/ Enumeration (n)/ Enumerative (adj) | to name things one after another in a list. | 6 | |
| 14868087326 | Expository (adj)/ Exposition (n)/ Expose (v) | intended to explain or describe something **think tone word** | 7 | |
| 14868095334 | Conceit (n) | uses an extended metaphor that compares two very dissimilar things. "Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, Without a sudden calm, will overset Thy tempest-tossed body." Romeo and Juliet Juliet is being compared to a boat in a storm | 8 | |
| 14868100896 | Pedantic (adj) /Pedantically (adv)/ Pedant (n)/ Pedantry (n) | overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching. **think tone word** | 9 | |
| 14893200329 | Aphorism (n)/ Aphoristic (adj)/ Aphoristically (adv) | Ex: "Life is a tale told by an idiot-full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Macbeth | 10 | |
| 14893218990 | Colloquialism (n)/ Colloquial (adj)/ Colloquially (adv) | a word or phrase that is used mostly in informal speech Ex: bunch of numpties- a group of idiots to bamboozle- to deceive ogo bananas-go insane or be very angry owanna - want to gonna-going to y'all-you all go nuts-go insane or be very angry look blue -look sad o buzz off- go away | 11 | |
| 14893225634 | Contemplation (m/Contemplate ( Contemplative (adj)/ Contemplatively (adv) | involving, allowing, or causing deep thought Think chunking verbs and tone-words here! | 12 | |
| 14893232972 | Diatribe (n) | an angry speech or piece of writing that strongly criticizes someone or something "The vast majority of those intellectuals whom I know seek for nothing, do nothing, and are at present incapable of hard work. They call themselves intellectuals, but they use "thou" and "thee" to their servants, the treat the peasants like animals, they learn badly, they read nothing seriously, they do absolutely nothing, about science they only talk about art they understand little..." (Chekov, The Cherry Orchard) | 13 | |
| 14893244520 | Elegy (n)/ Elegiac (adj)/ Elegiacally (adv) | A piece expressing sorrow or lamentation, especially for one who is dead. think tone-word Ex: I meant to but never did go looking for him, to buy him back and now my old guilt is flooding this twilit table my guilt is ghosting the candles that pale us to skeletons the ones we must all become in an as yet unspecified order Oh Jack, tethered in what rough stall alone did you remember that one good winter? | 14 | |
| 14893248262 | Euphemism (n)/Euphemistic (adj)7 Euphemistically (adv) | a mild or pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive. Ex: "He's becoming a little thin on top" is a euphemism for "bald." | 15 | |
| 14893252862 | Homily (n | a sermon, lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme. | 16 | |
| 14893258109 | Illustration (n)/ Illustrate (v)/Illustrative (adj)/ Illustratively (adv) | serving as an example or explanation of something *think chunk verb | 17 | |
| 14893266718 | Invective (n) (adj) (note that it's the same form for each part speech) | insulting, abusive, or highly critical language (n) of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse (adj) think tone word | 18 | |
| 14893281449 | Syllogism (n/Syllogistic (adj)/ Syllogistically (adv) | a formal argument in logic that is formed by two statements and a conclusion which must be true if the two statements are true. "Flavius: Have you forgot me, sir? Timon: Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men;/ Then, if thou grant'st thou'rt a man, I/have forgot thee." | 19 |
