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| 6549921946 | monometer | one foot | 0 | |
| 6549921947 | dimeter | two feet | 1 | |
| 6549923913 | trimeter | three feet | 2 | |
| 6549925986 | tetrameter | four feet | 3 | |
| 6549928048 | pantameter | five feet | 4 | |
| 6549929559 | hexameter | six feet | 5 | |
| 6549932715 | heptameter | seven feet | 6 | |
| 6549934420 | octameter | eight feet | 7 |
| 6541066946 | quixotic | tending to romanticize life | 0 | |
| 6541103775 | contrite | repentant | 1 | |
| 6541109976 | asyndeton | when the conjunction (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a string of words, phases | 2 | |
| 6541147847 | penury | extreme poverty | 3 | |
| 6541154404 | propensity | a tendency to demonstrate particular behavior | 4 | |
| 6541163941 | participle | a form of a verb used to create complex tenses | 5 | |
| 6541175911 | foster | to nurture or support for growth and development | 6 | |
| 6541188658 | declamation | a formal dramatic speech or presentation | 7 | |
| 6541194288 | arid | dry and with little rainfall | 8 | |
| 6541198301 | munificent | very generous | 9 | |
| 6541208645 | protean | (adj.)able to change shape; displaying great variety (Among Nigel's protean talents was his ability to touch the tip of his nose with his tongue.) | 10 | |
| 6541213292 | potable | suitable for drinking | 11 | |
| 6541215246 | quaint | charmingly old-fashioned | 12 | |
| 6541217331 | putrid | Rotten and foul smelling | 13 | |
| 6541221211 | superfluous | beyond what is needed or required, an overflow | 14 | |
| 6541223205 | redoubtable | Worthy of fear or respect; mighty | 15 | |
| 6541231224 | sapient | wise | 16 | |
| 6541236211 | jingoism | Excessive, loud patriotism and aggressive, warlike foreign policy | 17 | |
| 6541238788 | coin | to devise a new word or phrase | 18 | |
| 6541246590 | tawdry | Gaudy, cheap or cheap-looking; indecent | 19 |
| 3187856425 | Harun Al-Rashid | The Abbasid Caliph in 786. The luxury of his court was recorded in the fictional account The Thousand and One Nights. He was heavily dependent on Persian advisors. | 0 | |
| 3187877518 | Vikings | Seagoing Scandinavian raiders from Sweden, Denmark, and Norway who disrupted coastal areas of Western Europe from the 8th and 11th centuries | 1 | |
| 3187897650 | Francis of Assisi | Founder of a monastic Franciscan order, he converted to a life of piety and preaching. | 2 | |
| 3187921551 | Abu Bakr | First caliph, successor of Muhammad. | 3 | |
| 3187966823 | Saladin | Muslim leader in the last decades of the 12th century, reconquered most of the crusader outposts for Islam. | 4 | |
| 3187977531 | Sundiata | The "lion prince", created the unified state that became the Mali empire. | 5 | |
| 3187996885 | Charlemagne | Charles the Great; Carolingian monarch who established substantial empire in France and Germany | 6 | |
| 3188015542 | Pope Urban II | Called the first Crusade in 1095; appealed to Christians to mount military assault to free the Holy Land from Muslims. | 7 | |
| 3188028301 | Thomas Aquinas | An Italian Monk who taught at the University of Paris. He emphasized that faith came first, but expanded the scope of reason for understanding the nature of God. | 8 | |
| 3188093054 | Pope Gregory VII | Tried to purify the church from feudal lords. | 9 |
| 2813025225 | abstract | a term that is applied to ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible, yet the idea comes from experience. | 0 | |
| 2813033640 | allegory | a story in which the characters and their actions represent general truths about human conduct. The characters in an allegory often represent abstract concepts, such as faith, innocence, or evil. | 1 | |
| 2813034205 | alliteration | the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or a line of poetry. | 2 | |
| 2813035266 | allusion | a reference to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event, outside the story. Allusions enrich a story by suggesting similarities to comparable circumstances in another time or place; complex ideas are brought to the readers' minds simply and easily. | 3 | |
| 2813037567 | analogy | exploring a topic by explaining it in terms of another seemingly unlike but more commonplace and less complicated object, or experience. Analogy extends a metaphor. | 4 | |
| 2813040118 | anaphora | the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech. | 5 | |
| 2813040119 | apostrophe | the speaker is addressing an absent person or the dead, or an inanimate object, as if present. | 6 | |
| 2813040618 | assonance | the repetition of similar stressed vowel sounds within words in nearby sentences or words. | 7 | |
| 2813041058 | bildungsroman | a special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood. | 8 | |
| 2813041758 | stock character | a fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype | 9 | |
| 2813041759 | chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | 10 | |
| 2813042336 | denouement | derived from a French word called "denoue" that means "to untie". The denouement is a literary device which can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction. | 11 | |
| 2813042337 | epigraph | is a literary device in the form of a poem, quotation or sentence usually placed at the beginning of a document or a simple piece having a few sentences but which belongs to another writer. | 12 | |
| 2813042338 | epiphany | that moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story. | 13 | |
| 2813042928 | exposition | a literary device used to introduce background information about events, settings, characters etc. to the audience or readers. | 14 | |
| 2813042929 | farce | a literary genre and the type of a comedy that makes the use of highly exaggerated and funny situations aimed at entertaining the audience. It uses elements like physical humor, deliberate absurdity, bawdy jokes and drunkenness just to make people laugh and we often see one-dimensional characters in ludicrous situations in farces. | 15 | |
| 2813042930 | figurative language | language that uses nonliteral figures of speech (such as simile, hyperbole, and metaphor) to convey an idea in an imaginative way. | 16 | |
| 2813043248 | foil | a character with good qualities that contrasts the qualities of another character. | 17 | |
| 2813043249 | hubris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall | 18 | |
| 2813043250 | in media res | Latin for "into the middle of things." It usually describes a narrative that begins, not at the beginning of a story, but somewhere in the middle — usually at some crucial point in the action. | 19 | |
| 2813044200 | irony, dramatic | 1) a situation in which a character, or narrator, unconsciously reveals to the characters and to the audience or reader some knowledge contrary to the impression he or she wishes to make. 2) a situation in which the character, or narrator, acts and reacts in ignorance of some vital, external, contrary knowledge held by one or more of the other characters and by the audience or reader. | 20 | |
| 2813044201 | irony, situational | situations in which there is a discrepancy (an incongruity, an opposition) between what the reader expects or presumes to be appropriate and what actually occurs. | 21 | |
| 2813050400 | irony, verbal | when the speaker means the opposite of what he or she literally says | 22 | |
| 2813050401 | juxtaposition | side by side placement of sentences or ideas to bring about a desired effect | 23 | |
| 2813050934 | metonymy | literally means "name change." A figure of speech in which a word referring to one attribute of something is used to signify the whole of the thing. | 24 | |
| 2813050935 | mood | the emotional atmosphere experienced by the reader of a literary work. Mood is often suggested by the writer's choice of words, by the events in the work, or by the physical setting. | 25 | |
| 2813050936 | motif | a recurring idea that is woven like a design into a fabric of a literary work. It differs from a theme in that it is a concrete example of a theme. | 26 | |
| 2813051364 | narrative frame | A story within a story, within sometimes yet another story | 27 | |
| 2813051365 | objective narrator | presents the action and the characters' thoughts, without comment or emotion. The reader has to interpret them and uncover their meaning. | 28 | |
| 2813051724 | unreliable narrator | can be first or third person, but presents the story at least partially incorrectly. | 29 | |
| 2813051725 | novella | An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a novel. | 30 | |
| 2813051726 | onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate the sound they describe. | 31 | |
| 2813051727 | parable | a figure of speech, which presents a short story typically with a moral lesson at the end. | 32 | |
| 2813052415 | paradox | a self-contradictory statement that may state a truth. | 33 | |
| 2813052416 | parallel structure | the expression of sequential or related thoughts using the same syntactical (grammatical) form. The principles of parallelism may be applied to words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and still larger units. | 34 | |
| 2813052417 | parody | an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect. | 35 | |
| 2813052809 | pastoral | set in beautiful rural landscapes | 36 | |
| 2813052810 | third-person limited point of view | narrator knows only one character's internal state | 37 | |
| 2813053641 | third-person omniscient point of view | narrator knows all the characters' internal states | 38 | |
| 2813053642 | pun | a play on words that are similar in sound but have different meanings, usually providing a humorous effect. | 39 | |
| 2813053643 | realism | it refers generally to any artistic or literary portrayal of life in a faithful, accurate manner, unclouded by false ideals, literary conventions, or misplaced aesthetic glorification and beautification of the world | 40 | |
| 2813054604 | reversal | the sudden downturn of events that occurs, and discovery is the revelation to the hero of an important fact | 41 | |
| 2813054605 | romanticism | An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination, departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and rebellion against established social rules and conventions. | 42 | |
| 2813054606 | satire | a humorous or witty method of criticizing characteristics and institutions of human society. Its purpose is to correct as well as to expose and ridicule; therefore, it is not purely destructive. | 43 | |
| 2813054943 | setting | the time & place of a literary work. This can include the social, political, economic, and cultural environment as well. | 44 | |
| 2813054944 | social setting | 45 | ||
| 2813055463 | soliloquy | a popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character. | 46 | |
| 2813055464 | stream of consciousness | a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. | 47 | |
| 2813055777 | structure | framework of a work of literature; the organization or over-all design of a work. | 48 | |
| 2813055778 | symbol | a specific object, incident, or person intended to represent some abstract idea. | 49 | |
| 2813055779 | synecdoche | a form of metonymy in which a part is made to stand for the whole or a whole for the part. | 50 | |
| 2813056443 | theme | the major underlying idea in a specific literary work. | 51 | |
| 2813056444 | tone | the emotional attitude (usually of the author, speaker, or narrator) expressed toward his readers and his subject; his mood or moral view. | 52 | |
| 2813058179 | tragedy | a form of literature that depicts the downfall of the leading character whose life, despite its tragic end, represents something significant. | 53 | |
| 2813059399 | tragic hero | The leading character (known as the tragic hero), suffers from what Aristotle called "hamartia," a mistake in judgement on the part of the hero, frequently translated as "tragic flaw. | 54 |
sources of definitions are The Princeton Review (TPR) and Barron's AP study guides. and class notes that Mr. Enns distributed :)
| 4388223793 | abstract | an abbreviated synopsis of a longer work of scholarship or research | 0 | |
| 4388223804 | aphorism | a short, pithy statement of a generally accepted truth or sentiment | 1 | |
| 4388223806 | apostrophe | a locution that addresses a person/personified thing not present | 2 | |
| 4388223809 | ballad | a simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited; a long narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, typically has a naive folksy quality | 3 | |
| 4388223815 | blank verse | poetry written in iambic pentameter, the primary meter used in English poetry and the works of Shakespeare and Milton. its lines generally do not rhyme | 4 | |
| 4388223828 | conceit | a witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language; a startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines | 5 | |
| 4388223851 | dirge | a song for the dead, its tone is typically slow, heavy, and melancholy | 6 | |
| 4388223856 | elegy | a poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing/death of something/someone of value | 7 | |
| 4388223865 | epigram | a concise but ingenious, witty and thoughtful statement | 8 | |
| 4388223867 | epithet | an adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or thing | 9 | |
| 4388223869 | euphemism | a mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term | 10 | |
| 4388223888 | Gothic novel | a novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terror pervades the action. i.e. "Frankenstein" | 11 | |
| 4388223900 | kenning | a device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions/qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "wale-road" for ocean | 12 | |
| 4388223906 | lyric | personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker's thoughts and feelings about the subject; the word is used to describe tone, it refers to a sweet, emotional melodiousness | 13 | |
| 4388223922 | motif | a phrase, idea, event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. | 14 | |
| 4388223927 | non sequitur | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | 15 | |
| 4388223934 | parable | like a fable or an allegory, it's a story that instructs; a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived | 16 | |
| 4388223943 | persona | the role/facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, viewer, or the world at large; the narrator in a non-first-person novel | 17 | |
| 4388223958 | quatrain | a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem | 18 |
| 3166379919 | chitin | complex carbohydrate that makes up the cell walls of fungi; also found in the external skeletons of arthropods |  | 0 |
| 3166379920 | hyphae | the branching, threadlike tubes that make up the bodies of Multicellular fungi |  | 1 |
| 3166379921 | mycelium | a mat of hyphae that forms the body of a fungus |  | 2 |
| 3166379924 | sporangia | multicellular organs that produce spores |  | 3 |
| 3166379929 | lichen | Symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism |  | 4 |
| 3166379930 | extracellular digestion | the breakdown of substances that occurs in spaces outside the cells such as within the stomach or intestine | 5 | |
| 3166379931 | spores | single-celled reproductive bodies highly resistant to cold and heat damage; capable of new organisms | 6 | |
| 3166379932 | septa | openings in the cell wall | 7 | |
| 3166379933 | eukaryotes | organisms made up of one or more cells that have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles | 8 | |
| 3166379934 | heterotrophs | consumers, they rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply | 9 | |
| 3166384040 | fruiting body | The reproductive structure of a fungus that contains many hyphae and produces spores | 10 | |
| 3166389703 | gills | structure that produces spores |  | 11 |
| 4332759779 | SYNTAX | The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. | 0 | |
| 4332762662 | SONNET | 14 lined iambic pentameter poem | 1 | |
| 4332764116 | ATECEDENT | Word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers to | 2 | |
| 4332766416 | SATIRE | A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and convention for reform or ridicule | 3 | |
| 4332768079 | SYMBOL | Generally, anything that represents or stands for something else | 4 | |
| 4332769560 | PATHOS | The quality in literature of appealing to the emotions | 5 | |
| 4332771859 | METAPHOR | Comparison without the use of comparative terms | 6 | |
| 4332772647 | RHETORIC | A technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form | 7 | |
| 4332774035 | TONE | Describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both | 8 | |
| 4332775773 | STANZA | Repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme | 9 | |
| 4332779125 | PARALLELISM | Similarities in situations or structure; things that mirror each other or are moving in the same direction | 10 | |
| 4332782310 | OXYMORON | Combination of opposites | 11 | |
| 4332777262 | FOIL | Characters that are similar but still have major differences | 12 | |
| 4332786752 | ANALOGY | Drawing a comparison to another situation that applies to the original circumstance in order to show a similarity | 13 | |
| 4332783126 | PARADOX | Statement that seems to be self contradictory, but is actually true. | 14 | |
| 4332787989 | SOLIOQUY | Characters talking directly to the audience or themselves while alone | 15 | |
| 4332789332 | STEROTYPE | Conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea | 16 | |
| 4332790685 | LYRICAL | A type of poem which expresses love, inner emotions etc.; tends to be personal | 17 | |
| 4332792542 | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | Asing figures of speech; language that does not mean what is stated literally | 18 | |
| 4332795848 | ALLUSION | A direct or indirect reference to something that is presumable commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art | 19 | |
| 4332798755 | IRONY | Words or situation mean/turn out the opposite of what is planned | 20 | |
| 4332798765 | NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE | he style of telling that "story," even if the passage is nonfiction | 21 | |
| 4332802198 | GOTHIC | Characterized by a dark, mysterious setting; has supernatural elements | 22 | |
| 4332804659 | DICTION | Choice of words | 23 | |
| 4332806024 | STYLE | The author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. | 24 | |
| 4332807139 | NARRARTOR | A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a narrative | 25 | |
| 4332810880 | STRUCTURE | The way a work is built or composed | 26 | |
| 4332814039 | GUSTATORY IMAGERY | Imagery that pertains to the sense of taste | 27 | |
| 4332815986 | RESOURCES OF LANGUAGE | This phrase refers to all the devices of composition available to a writer | 28 | |
| 4332817792 | THEME | The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. | 29 | |
| 4332819193 | AMBIGUITY | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 30 | |
| 4332820332 | ALLEGORY | A work with a secondary or symbolic meaning underlying the literal meaning | 31 | |
| 4332821269 | APOSTROPHE | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 32 | |
| 4332822711 | DYSTOPIA | Imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad | 33 | |
| 4332824098 | Bildungsroman (coming of age novel) | The protagonist is a child whose experiences over the course of the work teach him about the realities of the adult world | 34 | |
| 4332826293 | ELIPSIS | The omission of a word or several words | 35 | |
| 4332827449 | MENTONYMY | A type of metaphor in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 36 | |
| 4332829255 | PACE | Determines how quickly or how slowly the writer takes a reader through a story | 37 | |
| 4332830914 | END | Stopped A line with a pause at the end | 38 | |
| 4332832816 | SYLLOGISM | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them | 39 | |
| 4332833929 | ASSONANCE | Repetition of vowel sounds | 40 | |
| 4332834720 | DIGRESSION | Use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 41 | |
| 4332836769 | VERNACULAR | Ordinary, everyday speech of a region | 42 | |
| 4332867787 | CONNOTATION | The various positive or negative implications of a word | 43 | |
| 4332869526 | EUPHEISM | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. | 44 | |
| 4332870589 | LITERAL | Not figurative, accurate to the letter | 45 | |
| 4332871738 | HYPERBOLE | Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement | 46 | |
| 4332876270 | RHETORICAL TECHNIQUES | Uses words in a certain way to convey meaning or to persuade. It can also be a technique to evoke an emotion on the part of the reader or audience | 47 | |
| 4332877781 | VERISIMILITUDE | The quality in literature of being true to life, details seem realistic and believable | 48 | |
| 4332880167 | OXYMORON | Combination of opposites | 49 |
| 6659095169 | Babbit | Story: George Babbitt was the protagonist of the satirical novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis. Meaning: materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman. |  | 0 |
| 6659095170 | Brobdingnag | Story: a place of giants visited in Gullivar's Travels by swift. Meaning: something of huge proportions, immense, gigantic |  | 1 |
| 6659095171 | Bumble | Story: Mr. Bumble is in Dickens's Oliver Twist and is a minor official in the workhouse where Oliver is brought up. Bumble is a cruel, fussy man with mighty ideas of his own importance Meaning: arrogance and conceit of the petty dignitary. |  | 2 |
| 6659095172 | Cinderella | Meaning:(1) a person or thing that is undeservedly neglected or ignored, (2) used to describe a transformation from poverty of plainness to prosperity or glamour, (3) refer to an undervalued service that nobody will provide for, or(4) an instruction that must be followed precisely (late-night deadline). |  | 3 |
| 6659095173 | Don Juan | Story: Spanish noble man Meaning: reputation for seducing women. |  | 4 |
| 6659095174 | Don Quixote | Story: a Spanish noble who was an individual who reaches for elaborate unrealistic dreams. Meaning: extremely idealistic, unrealistic and impractical. |  | 5 |
| 6659095175 | Pangloss | Story: In Voltaire's Candide (1759), Dr. Pangloss is the tutor who imbues Candide with his guiding philosophy that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. No matter what misfortunes they each suffer on their travels, Pangloss confidently and complacently assures Candide that things could not be otherwise. Meaning: describes a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances. |  | 6 |
| 6659095176 | Falstaff | Story: Sir John Falstaff is the fat, witty, good-humored old knight in Shakespeare's Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Meaning: fat, jolly and debauched |  | 7 |
| 6659095177 | Frankenstein | Meaning: anything that threatens and/or destroys the person who created it |  | 8 |
| 6659095178 | Friday | Story: is in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and is the name given by Crusoe to the man he meets on his island, on a Friday, after spending many years there alone following a shipwreck. The two become close friends and constant companions. Meaning: loyal and willing assistant |  | 9 |
| 6659095179 | Galahad | Story: was the noblest knight of the Round Table, the son of Sir Lancelot and Elaine. His immaculate purity and virtue predestine him to succeed in the quest for the Holy Grail Meaning: person characterized by nobility, integrity, or courtesy. |  | 10 |
| 6659095180 | Jekyll and Hyde | Story: Dr. Jekyll discovers a drug that allows him to have a separate personality, Mr. Hyde, through which he can express the evil side of his personality. Meaning: a character with two dueling personalities, which can have either personality come out rather quickly |  | 11 |
| 6659095181 | Lilliputian | Story: In book one of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), Gulliver finds himself shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput. The tiny Lilliputians are only 6 inches tall and are as small-minded as they are small-bodied Meaning: trivial or very small, petty |  | 12 |
| 6659095182 | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Story: From the name of the boy hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel LLF Meaning: excessively well-mannered or elaborately dressed young boy. |  | 13 |
| 6659095183 | Lothario | Story: a byword for libertinism Meaning: free indulgence in sensual pleasures, seducing a woman |  | 14 |
| 6659095184 | Malapropism | Story: Mrs. Malaprop is known for her aptitude for misusing long words, the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect Meaning: unintentional and very humorous misuse of a word/phrase |  | 15 |
| 6659095185 | Quixotic | To have impractical ideas of perfection and over idealize situations |  | 16 |
| 6659095186 | Robot | Something that looks and acts like a human, but has no emotions |  | 17 |
| 6659095187 | Rodomontade | To rant with excessive pride and self satisfaction. It often has little effect |  | 18 |
| 6659095188 | Scrooge | A character who is bitter, self-centered and greedy |  | 19 |
| 6659095189 | Milquetoast | A weak, timid, and passive character |  | 20 |
| 6659095190 | Pickwick | jovial, generous, and unworldly in character and short, plump and bespectacled in appearance. |  | 21 |
| 6659095191 | Pollyana | Someone who tends to find the good in everything, but can be foolishly or blindly optimistic |  | 22 |
| 6659095192 | Pooh-bah | Someone who is holding many offices in a high position, but can give the impression that they are more important than they actually are |  | 23 |
| 6659095193 | Simon legree | Story: is the cruel cotton plantation owner in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-42) to whom Tom is sold and who beats Tom to death. Meaning: brutal taskmaster. |  | 24 |
| 6659095194 | Tartuffe | Story: the hypocrite in the work Tartuffe, an Imposter Meaning: describes a religious hypocrite or a hypocritical pretender to excellence of any kind. |  | 25 |
| 6659095195 | Svengali | Story: is a musician in George Du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894) who trains Trilby's voice and makes her a famous singer. His control over her is so great that when he dies, she loses her ability to sing Meaning: someone who establishes considerable or near-total influence over someone else—a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on another, especially for a sinister purpose. |  | 26 |
| 6659095196 | Uncle Tom | Story: is a loyal and ever-patient black slave, the main character of Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin Meaning: black man whose behavior to white people is regarded as submissively servile, and by extension can refer to anyone regarded as betraying his or her cultural or social allegiance. |  | 27 |
| 6659095197 | Uriah heep | Story: is the shrewd, deceitful clerk of the lawyer Mr. Wickfield in Dickens's David Copperfield Meaning: obsequiousness and false humility, and his often repeated gesture of rubbing his hands together as he speaks |  | 28 |
| 6659095198 | Yahoo | Story: are the imaginary race of brutish creatures, resembling humans, in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726). They embody all the baser vices and instincts of the human race. Meaning: to a course, loutish, or rowdy person, or one who engages in wanton vandalism. Also, can be a rude, noisy or violent person. |  | 29 |
| 6659095199 | Walter mitty | Story: James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) relates how a henpecked husband escapes his wife's nagging by retreating into his own world of daydreams in which he is the hero of many adventures Meaning: someone who lives in a fantasy world, especially someone who has lost touch with reality. |  | 30 |
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