Unit 5: Part 3 Vocabulary & Literary Terms

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  1. tranquil
    free from disturbance by heavy waves
    The tide is full, the moon lies fair
    Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
    Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
    Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
  2. cadence
    a recurrent rhythmical series
    Listen! you hear the grating roar
    Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
    At their return, up the high strand,
    Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
    With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
    The eternal note of sadness in.
  3. turbid
    clouded as with sediment
    Sophocles long ago
    Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought
    Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
    Of human misery
  4. dominion
    control or power through legal authority
    God of our fathers, known of old—
    Lord of our far-flung battle-line—
    Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
    Dominion over palm and pine—
  5. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
    The tumult and the shouting dies—
    The Captains and the Kings depart—
    Still stands Thine ancient Sacrifice,
    An humble and a contrite heart.
  6. awe
    an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
    If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
    Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe—
    Such boasting as the Gentiles use
    Or lesser breeds without the Law—
  7. depredation
    an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
    Gas was unknown: I groped about the streets of London in all but the utter darkness of a twinkling oil lamp, under the protection of watchmen in their grand climacteric, and exposed to every species of depredation and insult.
  8. macadam
    a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar
    In going from Taunton to Bath, I suffered between 10,000 and 12,000 severe contusions, before stone-breaking Macadam was born.
  9. fracture
    breaking of hard tissue such as bone
    I paid £15 in a single year for repairs of carriage-springs on the pavement of London; and I now glide without noise or fracture, on wooden pavements.
  10. pulp
    any soft or soggy mass
    There were no waterproof hats, and my hat has often been reduced by rains into its primitive pulp.
  11. gout
    a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints
    If I had the gout, there was no colchicum.
  12. bilious
    suffering from a liver disorder or gastric distress
    If I was bilious, there was no calomel.
  13. privation
    the act of stripping someone of food, money, or rights
    The Poor Laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country; and whatever miseries I suffered, I had no post to whisk my complaints for a single penny to the remotest corners of the empire; and yet, in spite of all these privations, I lived on quietly, and am now ashamed that I was not more discontented, and utterly surprised that all these changes and inventions did not occur two centuries ago.
  14. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
    With thought and emotion so closely linked, the mood, or feeling, that a poem calls up is bound to be related to its themes, or messages about life, and to its aesthetic impact—its intended emotional effect on the reader.
  15. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
    With thought and emotion so closely linked, the mood, or feeling, that a poem calls up is bound to be related to its themes, or messages about life, and to its aesthetic impact—its intended emotional effect on the reader.
  16. antonym
    a word that expresses an opposite meaning
    Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
Created on Thu Oct 22 16:01:32 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Oct 30 14:18:37 EDT 2020)

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