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| 7653048861 | seminal | (of a work, event, moment, or figure) strongly influencing later developments. | 0 | |
| 7653052410 | usurp | take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force. | 1 | |
| 7653052411 | parse | analyze (a sentence) into its parts and describe their syntactic roles. | 2 | |
| 7653052412 | sign | an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else. | 3 | |
| 7653053048 | signified | the meaning or idea expressed by a sign, as distinct from the physical form in which it is expressed. | 4 | |
| 7653053049 | semiotics | the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation. | 5 | |
| 7653053747 | polysemus | having multiple meaning | 6 | |
| 7653053748 | petrachan sonnet | a sonnet form popularized by Petrarch, consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd | 7 | |
| 7653055457 | Shakespearean/English | The second major type of sonnet, the Shakespearean, or English sonnet, follows a different set of rules. Here, three quatrains and a couplet follow this rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg. | 8 | |
| 7653055458 | sonnet | A sonnet is a one-stanza poem of fourteen lines, written in iambic pentameter. One way to describe a verse line is to talk about how many stressed and unstressed syllables are in the line. | 9 | |
| 7653056536 | iambic pentameter | a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity. | 10 | |
| 7653056537 | writ large | clear and obivious | 11 | |
| 7653056538 | sic | used in brackets after a word or phrase copied from somewhere else to show the writer knows it appears to be wrong but this is intentional or exactly as in the original: he sign said, "Closed on Wednesday" [sic]. | 12 | |
| 7653057257 | e.g. | An abbreviation meaning "for example." It is short for the Latin exempli gratia, "for the sake of example." A list of examples may be preceded by e.g.: "She loved exotic fruit, e.g., mangoes, passion fruit, and papayas." (Compare i.e.) | 13 | |
| 7653057258 | et al | Et al. is defined as an abbreviation for the Latin phrase et alia which means "and others." An example of et. al. used as an abbreviation is in the sentence, "The article was written by Smith, Jones, Paul, et al." which means that Smith, Jones, Paul and others wrote the article. | 14 | |
| 7653057883 | schadenfreude | pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. | 15 | |
| 7653058431 | weltanschauung | a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group. | 16 | |
| 7653058432 | carpe diem | used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future. | 17 | |
| 7653058433 | verboten | forbidden | 18 | |
| 7653059305 | profrane | relating or devoted to that which is not sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious. | 19 | |
| 7653059306 | sacred | connected with God (or the gods) or dedicated to a religious purpose and so deserving veneration. | 20 | |
| 7653059307 | homologous | Having some relation | 21 | |
| 7653060344 | situational irony | Situational irony is a literary device that you can easily identify in literary works. Simply, it occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. | 22 | |
| 7653060345 | verbal irony | irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 23 | |
| 7653061906 | dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. | 24 | |
| 7653061907 | existentialism | a philosophical attitude associated especially with Heidegger, Jaspers, Marcel, and Sartre, and opposed to rationalism and empiricism, that stresses the individual's unique position as a self-determining agent responsible for the authenticity of his or her choices. | 25 | |
| 7653061908 | essentialism | a doctrine that certain traditional concepts, ideals, and skills are essential to society and should be taught methodically to all students, regardless of individual ability, need, etc. | 26 | |
| 7653062713 | futurism | a style of art, literature, music, etc., and a theory of art and life in which violence, power, speed, mechanization or machines, and hostility to the past or to traditional forms of expression were advocated or portrayed. | 27 | |
| 7653066668 | vorticism | a short-lived avant-garde British art movement that was nurtured by Wyndham Lewis, derived from futurism and cubism, and reached its climax in an exhibition in London in 1915, dwindling in influence after World War I. | 28 | |
| 7653067501 | dadaism | the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc. | 29 | |
| 7653069606 | magic(al) realism | a style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner | 30 | |
| 7653069607 | phallocentricism | a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex. | 31 | |
| 7653071630 | ocularcentricism | A perceptual and epistemological bias ranking vision over other senses in Western cultures. An example would be a preference for the written word rather than the spoken word (in which case, it would be the opposite of phonocentrism). | 32 | |
| 7653072206 | logocentricism | a philosophy holding that all forms of thought are based on an external point of reference which is held to exist and given a certain degree of authority | 33 |
