 | Term | Definition |
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gratuitous |
besides the point |
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oedipal/oedipus |
complex:want to kill your dad and sleep w/ your mom |
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oderous |
burdensome |
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end stopped |
a line of poetry that concludes with a period, requiring a pause |
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enjambment |
one line that runs into the next without any intervening mark of punctuation |
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spande |
extra hard beat |
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explicate |
line by line explanation |
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apocalypse |
a revelation concerning the end of time, usually emphasizing the speration of people into "heaven or hell" |
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jeremiad |
lamentation |
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epigraph |
a quotation from another writer to set the tone of what's to follow |
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ghost dance |
condemned-white people, buffalo come back and food is plentiful |
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sublimation |
rooting your emotion into something constructive |
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implicit |
suggested but not stated |
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explicit |
stated; blatantly obvious |
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trope |
a literary substitution of one word for another, more particular one |
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interposed |
to come between |
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morose |
morbid, disturbing |
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syntax |
how one puts sentences together |
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diction |
word choice |
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diction + syntax |
writing/speaking style |
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waldorf education |
ideals first; reapitulation-human history is encapsulated in you |
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negative capability |
Keats: the ability to accept ambiguity and paradox without having to resolve them |
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ambiguity |
uncertainty of meaning |
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