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Flashcards by grace.elizabeth, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by grace.elizabeth
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| Question | Answer |
| Theme | Centra idea which gives the work meaning revealed in the plot, characters, or the setting |
| Clarion | A trumpet of the Middle Ages producing, clear, sharp, shrill tones; a sound made by this instrument or any sound resembling it |
| Spectral | Ghostly; of or resembling a phantom, apparition, or mental image |
| Harbingers | That which goes before to announce the approach of something; a forerunner |
| Ignoble | Shameful; degrading or dishonorable |
| Sylvan | Having to do with woods or a forest; wooded; rural |
| Imbibed | Consumed, to take in; to drink |
| Etherealized | To make or treat as heavenly to celestial; light or delicate |
| Variegated | Marked with different colors in spots; streaked; parti-colored; varied; diversified |
| Sardonic | Disdainful; sarcastic; scornful |
| Guttural | Throaty; harsh; rasping |
| Unimpeachable | Beyond doubt or reproach; blameless; unquestionable |
| Sallow | Of a pale or sickly yellow hue |
| Towhead | A head of pale-yellow hair; a person having such hair |
| Infidel | One who does not believe; a non-Christian; an atheist |
| Ramparts | Fortification consisting of an elevation or an embankment; any defense or bulwark |
| Labyrinth | A maze or series of winding passages; something complicated, confusing, or baffling |
| Allegory | A narrative or description in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols |
| Tone | The manner or attitude in which the writer deals with his subject and the effect or response it is meant to have from his audience |
| Satire | Originally Greek poetry that combine criticism with wit or ironic humor to ridicule human folly or vice with the purpose of correcting it |
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