| Term | Definition |
|---|
| replicate | To duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat |
| declarative | serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement |
| moderate | of medium quantity, extent, or amount: a moderate income |
| paternalistic | the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president. |
| ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious |
| didactic | intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry. |
| irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |
| onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
| parable | a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson. |
| vulnerable | capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon |
| simple sentence | A sentence having no coordinate or subordinate clauses, as The cat purred. |
| foreshadow | to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure |
| rhapsodic | extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic. |
| reflective | that reflects; reflecting. |
| apprehensive | uneasy or fearful about something that might happen |
| rhetorical | used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect. |
| wistful | characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning. |
| extol | to praise highly; laud; eulogize: to extol the beauty of Naples. |
| hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| legend | a nonhistorical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from earlier times and popularly accepted as historical. |
| liberal | favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. |
| compund sentence | a sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and (conjunction) the rain fell (independent clause). |
| flight of fancy | An unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream |
| infer | to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence |
| exuberance | an instance of this |
| preoccupied | completely engrossed in thought; absorbed. |
| irate | angry; enraged |
| naive | having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality |
| conservative | disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. |
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