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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 august | imposing and magnificent |
| august | this was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet ____________ taste |
| piquancy | pleasantly sharp quality |
| piquancy | there were much glore and glitter and _____ and phantasm- much of what has been since seen in hernani |
| arabesque | elaborately designed (clothes) |
| cessation | stoping either forever or for some time |
| cessation | .. and the evolutions of the waltzers were quieted there was an uneasy ___ of all things as before |
| arabesque | there were ____ figures with unsuited limbs and appointment |
| disapprobation | disapproval |
| disapprobation | expressive of _____ and surprise then finally of terror or horror and of disgust |
| candelabrum | A large branched candlestick |
| allegory | a story that uses symbols throughout to teach a lesson |
| habilaments | clothing |
| habilaments | the figure was tall and gaunt, shrouded from head to foot in the _____ of the grave |
| masque | ball at which costumes and masks are worn |
| masque | the ____ of the red death |
| brazier | metal pan or bowl to hold burning coals or charcoals |
| brazier | but in the corridors that followed the suite there stood opposite to each window a heavy tripod bearing a ___ of fire that projected its rays through the tinted glass |
| mummer | masked and costumed person who acts out |
| mummer | but the ____ had gone so far as to assume the type of the red death |
| cerements | wrappings or shroud |
| cerements | gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave ______ and corpse like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form |
| symbol | are peoplle,, pllaces,, events,, or thiings that stand ffor iideas llarger than themsellves.. |
| setting | iis the tiime and pllace iin whiich the events off a lliiterary sellectiion take pllace |
| masquerade ball | is an appropriate symbol for people who pretend that a disease does not exist. |
| context clues | proviide hiints that hellp you determiine the meaniing off an unffamiilliiar word.. |
| Party guests— | all humans |
| black chamber | tomb,, death,, the grave |
| abbey | the world |
| masked visitor | uninvited guest |
| Fllamiing triipod— | light |
| music | lliiffe,, jjoy,, ffreedom,, happiiness |
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