Honors English 1 Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 disquieting | inducing feelings of anxiety or worry |
| avert | turn away (one's eyes or thoughts) |
| meticulous | showing great attention to detail; very careful and precise |
| squat | short and thickset; disproportionately broad or wide |
| murky | not fully explained or understood, esp. with concealed dishonesty or immorality; not clear; dark and gloomy, esp. due to thick mist |
| exuberant | filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement |
| scrupulously | diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details |
| petulantly | childishly sulky or bad-tempered |
| hoarded | amass (money or valued objects) and hide or store away; accumulate a supply of (something) in a time of scarcity |
| transgression | infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior |
| throng | a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals |
| unwieldy | difficult to carry or move because of its size, shape, or weigh |
| assuage | make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense |
| palpable | able to be touched or felt; (esp. of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to be almost touched or felt |
| augmented | having been made greater in size or value |
| demonic | of, resembling, or characteristic of demons or evil spirits |
| determination | the process of establishing something exactly, typically by calculation or research |
| infiltrator | someone who enter or gain access to (an organization, place, etc.) surreptitiously and gradually, esp. in order to acquire secret information |
| improvisation | to create and perform (music, drama, or verse) spontaneously or without preparation |
| harboring | keep (a thought or feeling, typically a negative one) in one's mind, esp. secretly |
| misgiving | a feeling of doubt or apprehension about the outcome or consequences of something |
| inexplicably | unable to be explained or accounted for |
| suppressed | forcibly put an end to |
| maniacal | to exhibit extreme symptoms of wild behavior, esp. when violent and dangerous |
| basking | lie exposed to warmth and light, typically from the sun, for relaxation and pleasure |
| phoenix | a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. |
| incomprehension | failure to understand something |
| negligence | failure to take proper care in doing something |
| foreboding | fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen |
| coming-of-age novel | when the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both; often by a process of disillusionment; understanding comes after the dropping of preconceptions, a destruction of a false sense of security, or in some way the loss of innocence |
| epigraph | a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest the theme |
| novel | a long work of prose fiction; a type of genre |
| protagonist | the main character of a story |
| setting | the place and time of a lIterary work |
| theme | a central idea of a literary work (often a universal truth) |
| narrator | one who tells the story |
| character | a person or animal in a story |
| characterization | how the author describe a character from a story (ex: what the character says, does, other characters thoughts about them, and direct description) |
| motivation | a force that moves a character to think, feel,or behave in a certain way |
| point of view | the vantage point from which a "story" is told |
| flashback | a selection of a literary work that presents an event or series of events that occurred earlier than the current time |
| internal conflict | a struggle that takes place within a character |
| external conflict | a struggle that takes place between a character and an something outside the character |
| symbol | a thing that stands for or references both itself and something else, especially a material object representing something abstract |
| dramatic irony | something is known by the theater or audience but not to the characters |
| verbal irony | a statement is made which implies its opposite |
| foreshadowing | the act of presenting materials that hint at events to occur later in a story |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| personification | a fig of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing is described as if a person |
| foil | a character whose attributes contrast with the attributes of another character |
| tragic hero | character of high status; tragic flaw (hubris etc.) leads to downfall = suffering leads to recognition |
| allusion | rhetorical technology; a reference is made to a person, event, object, or work from history or literature |
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