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| 8696367348 | apotheosis | (n) Making a god of something; deification A glorified ideal; an essence | 0 | |
| 8696372551 | affable | (adj) Easy to speak to, approachable, polite, friendly | 1 | |
| 8696376773 | ascribe | (v) To attribute to a particular cause, source, or origin (used with "to") | 2 | |
| 8696382644 | circumlocution | (n) The use of many words when few would do Evasive talk; roundabout expression | 3 | |
| 8696387632 | circumscribe | (v) To draw a line around; to encircle **To confine; to limit | 4 | |
| 8696396964 | cognizant | (adj) aware; having knowledge of something | 5 | |
| 8696402420 | dictum | (n) Authoritative expression of opinion | 6 | |
| 8696403594 | dogmatic | (adj) Pertaining to dogma Expressed in an authoritative/arrogant manner | 7 | |
| 8696420139 | execrate | (v) To denounce as vile or evil; to curse; to detest | 8 | |
| 8696422585 | expiate | (v) To make amends for; to atone for | 9 | |
| 8696427032 | frenetic | (adj) frantic, frenzied | 10 | |
| 8696433045 | ignominious | (adj) Shameful; disgraceful | 11 | |
| 8696436959 | malediction | (n) a curse | 12 | |
| 8696444222 | piety | (n) Religious devotion; great respect toward something, especially parents | 13 | |
| 8696460519 | prescience | (n) Knowledge of events before they occur; foresight; foreknowledge | 14 | |
| 8696466550 | sacrilege | (n) Disrespect to something regarded as sacred | 15 | |
| 8696475551 | sagacious | (adj) shrewd, having good judgement, perceptive | 16 | |
| 8696483944 | sanctimonious | (adj) Pretending to be righteous | 17 | |
| 8696487324 | sapient | (adj) wise, insightful, often used ironically | 18 | |
| 8696489350 | subscribe | (v) To pledge, to pay for something, or to contribute to something; to place an order by signing To express consent or agreement; to assent | 19 | |
| 8696506571 | Realism | type of literature that deals with life as it really is without sentimentalizing; deals with the common and ordinary society in general | 20 | |
| 8696514206 | naturalism | An extreme form of realism that believes that man is just an animal and controlled by nature and the environment | 21 | |
| 8696518095 | disillusionment | In literature, a negative feeling about life after WWI that includes isolation and a questioning of the importance of love and religion | 22 | |
| 8696530699 | Hemingway Hero | Man for whom it is a point of honor to suffer with grace and dignity, and who, though sensing that defeat is inevitable, plays the game well | 23 | |
| 8696543107 | rhetoric | The art of analyzing or using all the language choices that a writer makes so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective in a given speech | 24 | |
| 8696547584 | writer | A distinct character who is educated, considerate, trustworthy, and well-intentioned. Appeals to the audience to convey his purpose and uses tone, diction, and voice to convey his/her message | 25 | |
| 8696555954 | audience | person(s) who read or respond to a rhetorical text, whose needs, knowledge, and experience are met. Are appealed to by using logos, ethos and pathos, dynamically and really want to know the truth or the best course of action | 26 | |
| 8696569495 | subject | The topic of composition that should be treated fairly, fully, and effectively, should be open, having two paths of interpretation, be based on what the audience already knows, making them curious to know more, and satisfying their curiosity by providing facts, ideas and interpretations, using claim+support technique | 27 | |
| 8696584341 | logos | An appeal to the audience in which the author offers a clear, reasonable, central idea and develops that idea with appropriate reasoning, examples, or details | 28 | |
| 8696589653 | ethos | An appeal to the audience in which the author offers evidence that he/she is credible that he/she knows important and relevant information about the topic and is a good, believable person who has the reader's best interest in mind | 29 | |
| 8696599187 | pathos | An appeal to the audience in which the author draws on the emotions and interests of the audience so that they will be sympathetically inclined to accept and buy into his/her central ideas or arguments | 30 | |
| 8696605769 | context | The convergence of the immediate situation in any pertinent historical background, the persona of the author, and the knowledge and beliefs of the audience and cultural context deals with issues that occur over time | 31 | |
| 8696613656 | purpose | What the writer wants the audience to believe or do after reading a text and may be stated or implied throughout the text, rhetorical success is determined if the reader achieves his/her purpose | 32 | |
| 8696624605 | genre | the type of text that is appropriate to accomplish the writer's purpose in a given context. There are many types of text which are determined based on the audience. Context+purpose helps to decide what genre to use. | 33 | |
| 8696646670 | Mr. Oakhurst | main character, gambler, neat, kind, an outcast of poker flat, observant, cooly calm, smart, logical, believes in luck, dies at the end, suicide, negative connotion | 34 | |
| 8696671334 | Mother Shipton | changes into a selfless person, fell ill after starving herself to save Piney and Simpson, hateful at the beginning, (maybe a prostitute??), tough, angry, selfless, DYNAMIC | 35 | |
| 8696700296 | The Duchess | over-dramatic, drama queen --> becomes caring DYNAMIC | 36 | |
| 8698324260 | Uncle Billy | hates everyone | 37 | |
| 8698330818 | Tom Simpson | innocent | 38 | |
| 8698333546 | Piney Woods | shy | 39 | |
| 8698350866 | captain | calm, quiet, strong, leader, selfless, was supposed to go down with the ship bc he was the captain, rows, injured, doubting himself | 40 | |
| 8698385784 | cook | fat, doesn't row, paling | 41 | |
| 8698400356 | correspondent | judgmental, negative, passenger, journalist | 42 | |
| 8698405365 | Oiler (Billy) | Dies, kind, knowledgeable about the ocean, helps row, maintains engine on ship, | 43 | |
| 8698429261 | Jurgis | strong, eventually broken by the system, black eyes, beetling brows, thick black hair, married to Ona | 44 | |
| 8711605500 | Ona Lukoszaite | the bride, timid, quiet, shy, little, young, not quite sixteen, blue-eyed and fair, dies in second child-birth | 45 | |
| 8711610269 | Marija | Ona's cousin, headstrong, dominant, becomes a prostitute and drug addict | 46 | |
| 8711618502 | Teta Elzbieta | Ona's stepmother, stays home with the kids | 47 | |
| 8711620959 | Dede Antenas | Father of Jurgis, used to be a scholar, looks everywhere for work, finds a job (really really terrible job), dies of conjunctivitis | 48 | |
| 8711632072 | Stanislovas | 49 | ||
| 8711635653 | Antenas | Ona and Jurgis's child, drowns in a puddle one day, used to be the only light in Jurgis's life after Ona dies | 50 | |
| 8711647364 | Mike Scully | politically corrupt | 51 | |
| 8711647365 | Tamoszious | Plays the fiddle, an inspired man, really short, small, intense and passionate, not very good, bullied by Marija, dates Marija | 52 | |
| 8711656186 | Jokubus | has a store on Halsted Street, fat and hearty, makes a speech for the bride and groom | 53 |
