| Term | Definition |
|---|
| allusion | a reference in literature to a famous person, story, event, etc. that the reader is expected to already know |
| antecedent | a noun that goes before another noun or pronoun that refers back to it |
| appease | to calm down or please someone who is very angry with you |
| appositive | a noun that renames a previously mentioned noun without the help of a linking verb |
| archetype | a type of character or symbol that shows up repeatedly throughout literature and culture |
| atone | to make up for or correct a wrongdoing |
| court (verb) | to try to date and marry someone |
| disconsolate | hopelessly sad |
| entice | to try to tempt someone to do something |
| exquisite | beautifully made or designed |
| foreboding | a feeling that something bad is about to happen |
| implacable | impossible to appease or make happy |
| inversion | a reversal, often referring to a reversal of normal word order in a sentence |
| martyr | someone who dies for a cause and becomes a hero in death |
| piety | godliness or great devotion to religion and morality |
| scour | to search for something thoroughly and intensively |
| stealth | the quality of being difficult to detect; sneakiness |
| succumb | to give in |
| supplication | prayer, especially desperate prayer |
| syntax | sentence structure / word order |
| woe | grief or misery; misfortune and suffering |
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