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| 7555291136 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 0 | |
| 7555292914 | to vacillate | verb alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive. | 1 | |
| 7555299238 | dependent clause | a group of words with a subject and a verb. It does not express a complete thought so it is not a sentence and can't stand alone. These clauses include adverb clauses, adjective clauses and noun clauses. |  | 2 |
| 7555303561 | independent clause | a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence. It has both a subject and a verb and forms a complete thought. Independent clauses make clear communication possible, whether we're writing or speaking. |  | 3 |
| 7555306796 | aloof | not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. | 4 | |
| 7555308101 | veracity | noun conformity to facts; accuracy. | 5 | |
| 7555310245 | understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |  | 6 |
| 7555313363 | precedent | an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances. | 7 | |
| 7555314433 | abject | adj (of something bad) experienced or present to the maximum degree. | 8 | |
| 7555317871 | wry | adj using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor. | 9 | |
| 7555318996 | gregarious | adj (of a person) fond of company; sociable. |  | 10 |
| 7555322345 | candor | noun the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness. | 11 | |
| 7555324250 | hackneyed | adj (of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite. |  | 12 |
| 7555327870 | an aside | when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage. Asides are useful for giving the audience special information about the other characters onstage or the action of the plot. | 13 | |
| 7555330586 | paucity | noun the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity. | 14 | |
| 7555331836 | supercilious | adj behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others. | 15 | |
| 7555333980 | duplicitous | adj deceitful. | 16 | |
| 7555336841 | gothic | Gothic fiction refers to a style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion. These emotions can include fear and suspense. |  | 17 |
| 7555339982 | pastoral | dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city and especially court | 18 | |
| 7555342821 | surrealism | an artistic attempt to bridge together reality and the imagination. Surrealists seek to overcome the contradictions of the conscious and unconscious minds by creating unreal or bizarre stories full of juxtapositions. |  | 19 |
| 7555347294 | naturalism | It is a type of extreme realism. This movement suggested the role of family background, social conditions and environment in shaping human character. | 20 | |
| 7555350169 | classicism | An approach to aesthetics that favors restraint, rationality, and the use of strict forms. a specific genre of philosophy, expressing itself in literature, architecture, art, and music, which has Ancient Greek and Roman sources and an emphasis on society. It was particularly expressed in the Neoclassicism of the Age of Enlightenment. | 21 | |
| 7555352801 | allusion | a figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds | 22 | |
| 7555354152 | colloquial | the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing. Colloquial expressions tend to sneak in as writers, being part of a society, are influenced by the way people speak in that society. | 23 | |
| 7555356209 | a e s t h e t i c | concerned with the study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty. 3. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty. 4. relating to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality. |  | 24 |
| 7555360336 | pragmatic | dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. | 25 | |
| 7555361527 | point of view | the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation. In literature, point of view is the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers "hear" and "see" what takes place in a story, poem, essay etc. |  | 26 |
| 7555363525 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | 27 | |
| 7555365178 | avant-garde | new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them. | 28 |
