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| 8148611852 | whimsical | playfully quaint, in an amusing or appealing way |  | 0 |
| 8148611853 | homage | special honor or publicly shown respect |  | 1 |
| 8148611854 | fervent | Having or displaying a passionate intensity |  | 2 |
| 8148611855 | pensive | Engaged in serious reflective or deep thought |  | 3 |
| 8148611856 | congenial | Pleasant or agreeable because it suits one's likes |  | 4 |
| 8148611857 | euphemism | Using a mild or vague expression in place of a harsh, blunt or offensive one |  | 5 |
| 8148611858 | enigma | A puzzling or unexplained occurrence, situation, or person |  | 6 |
| 8148611859 | lament | To feel sorrow or regret for |  | 7 |
| 8148611860 | lucid | Easily understood or clear; shining, bright |  | 8 |
| 8148611861 | analogous | Corresponding or comparable to something else |  | 9 |
| 8148611862 | nonchalant | Casually calm and relaxed; laidback |  | 10 |
| 8148611863 | overt | Done or shown openly; not secret or hidden. Obvious. |  | 11 |
| 8148611864 | contempt | Feeling that something is beneath consideration or worthless |  | 12 |
| 8148611865 | exemplify | To be a typical/standard example of |  | 13 |
| 8148611866 | pernicious | Having a harmful effect, especially in a subtle or gradual way |  | 14 |
| 8148611867 | reverence | Deep respect for someone or something; high regard or esteem |  | 15 |
| 8148611868 | dissemination | The act of spreading something (typically information) widely |  | 16 |
| 8148611869 | cynical | Believing that people are motivated by self interest; distrustful of sincerity |  | 17 |
| 8148611870 | formidable | Inspiring fear or respect through size, power, intensity, or capability |  | 18 |
| 8148611871 | morose | Gloomy, ill-tempered, moody |  | 19 |
| 8148611872 | imperturbable | Unable to be upset or excited; calm & collected |  | 20 |
| 8148611873 | sombre | Dark or dull in color/tone; gloomy |  | 21 |
| 8148611874 | resigned | Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about |  | 22 |
| 8148611875 | diverged | Separate from another route |  | 23 |
| 8148611876 | converge | Tend to meet at a point |  | 24 |
| 8148611877 | ominous | Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening |  | 25 |
| 8148611878 | malady | A disease or ailment |  | 26 |
| 8148611879 | recluse | A person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people |  | 27 |
| 8148611880 | hasten | To be quick to do something |  | 28 |
| 8148611881 | tumultuously | Making a loud, confused noise; characterized by a noisy uproar |  | 29 |
| 8148611882 | impertinence | Lack of respect; rudeness |  | 30 |
| 8148611883 | conjecture | An opinion formed on the basis of incomplete information |  | 31 |
| 8148611884 | magnanimous | Very generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or someone less powerful |  | 32 |
| 8148611885 | stupor | A state of near-unconsciousness or intensity |  | 33 |
| 8148611886 | impede | To delay or prevent by obstruction; to hinder |  | 34 |
| 8148630070 | précis | a brief abstract of a paper, 1 paragraph long, that is the key essence of a work | 35 | |
| 8148638426 | Types of meter | iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic, pyrrhic | 36 | |
| 8148640889 | line length | monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter | 37 | |
| 8148649530 | scansion | (1) the act of scanning, or analyzing poetry in terms of its rhythmic components (2) the graphic representation, indicated by marked accents, feet, etc., of the rhythm of a line or lines of verse |  | 38 |
| 8148649531 | diction | the word choice an author makes in a piece |  | 39 |
| 8148653477 | syntax | the word order in a sentence or piece |  | 40 |
| 8148655391 | symbolism | An object that represents something else and contains several layers of meaning |  | 41 |
| 8148658485 | imagery | words/ideas that represent something by appealing to senses; Helps create vivid imagery for reader to connect to the story; Often uses figurative language to create imagery. |  | 42 |
| 8148660223 | visual imagery | sight |  | 43 |
| 8148660224 | auditory imagery | sound |  | 44 |
| 8148661627 | olfactory imagery | smell |  | 45 |
| 8148661628 | gustatory imagery | taste |  | 46 |
| 8148663532 | tactile imagery | touch |  | 47 |
| 8148666145 | magical realism | Consists mostly of true-to-life narrative punctuated by moments of whimsical, often symbolic, fantasy described in the same matter-of-fact tone |  | 48 |
| 8148667896 | irony | A figure of speech that is incongruent between what is expected and what actually happens - words are used in a way that their intended meaning is different than their actual meaning |  | 49 |
| 8148667897 | verbal irony | A discrepancy between what a speaker or writer says and what he believes to be true - when a speaker's intention is opposite of what s/he says; Similar to sarcasm |  | 50 |
| 8148671792 | situational irony | A discrepancy between expectation and reality; what one expects to happen is different than what actually happens; Tends to be generally considered funny or tragic; Creates unexpected twists at the end of stories |  | 51 |
| 8148673861 | dramatic irony | A discrepancy between the character's perception and what the reader or audience knows to be true - when the audience is aware of something the character is not aware of; Tends to be considered tragic |  | 52 |
| 8148675339 | zero endings | Loose ends of a story not tied up, leaving a lot of questions for the reader |  | 53 |
| 8148678617 | synecdoche | figure of speech using parts to represent a whole or vice versa |  | 54 |
| 8148680200 | Author: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |  | 55 |
| 8148684774 | Author: "Sonny's Blues" | James Baldwin |  | 56 |
| 8148685617 | Author: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" | Flannery O'Connor |  | 57 |
| 8148687295 | Author: "Cathedral" | Raymond Carver |  | 58 |
| 8148689346 | Author: "A Worn Path" | Eudora Welty |  | 59 |
| 8148691574 | Author: "Hand" | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette |  | 60 |
| 8148691575 | Author: "The Man of Adamant" | Nathaniel Hawthorne |  | 61 |
| 8148692796 | Author: "The Story of an Hour" | Kate Chopin |  | 62 |
| 8148785653 | poetic meter | the rhythm within the poem |  | 63 |
| 8148788306 | poetic feet | A poetic foot is a repeated sequence of rhythm comprised of two or more stressed and/or unstressed syllables. | 64 | |
| 8148793336 | ᴗ | unstressed | 65 | |
| 8148793337 | / | stressed | 66 | |
| 8148795584 | ᴗ / | iamb | 67 | |
| 8148795585 | / ᴗ | trochee | 68 | |
| 8148797276 | ᴗ ᴗ / | anapest | 69 | |
| 8148799101 | / ᴗ ᴗ | dactyl | 70 | |
| 8148801214 | / / | spondee | 71 | |
| 8148801215 | ᴗ ᴗ | pyrrhic | 72 |
