Language Arts Midterm

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temerity

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boldness

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pliable

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bendable

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cogent

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forceful

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tentative

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hesitant

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expunge

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erase

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venal

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open or marked by bribery

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opulent

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wealthy

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virulent

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poisonous

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extol

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praise

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stolid

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unresponsive and dull

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insidious

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treacherous

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impervious

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not affected or hurt by

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converge

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to come together

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bereft

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made unhappy through a loss

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urbane

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refined in manner or style

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infallible

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free from error

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supercilious

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proud and contemptuous

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clemency

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mercy

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quintessence

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the purest form or essence of

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dearth

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lack or scarcity

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officious

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meddling

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indomitable

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unconquerable

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brandish

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wave about or flourish

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artifice

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skillful or ingenious device, clever trick or skill

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repose

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rest

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bequeath

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pass on through inheritance

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craven

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cowardly

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meticulous

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pays great attention to details

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adroit

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skilled

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altruistic

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unselfish

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tragedy

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a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a seriuos or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or confict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction

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tragic hero

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a literary character who makes an error of judgement or has a fatal flaw and external forces, brings on a tragedy

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iambic pentameter

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the most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat. (ex. Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice")

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blank verse

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Verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter. It was most commonly used in the 16th-17th centuries and includes stressed and unstressed syllables

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sonnets

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a 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes

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motif

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a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc. especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work. (ex. witches in Macbeth)

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theme

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the message of a composition

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modernism

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The deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression that distinguished many styles of the arts and literature of the 20th century.