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Tacit
- (ADJ) implied or indicated but not actually expressed.
- EX: Management has given tacet (tacit?) approval to the plan (Taciturn = quiet)
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Salacious
- (ADJ) lustful; marked by lecherousness or lewdness
- EX: The author merely dredged up past rumors about the former 1st lady & stitche them together into a salacious narrative
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Verisimilitude
- (NOUN) appearance or semblance of truth.
- EX: By using his real name, O'Brian lends verisimilitude to the Things They Carried
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Discursive
(ADJ) wandering, rambling
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Chimera
(NOUN) a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain or idle fancy. (k-im-er-a) ALSO a mythological, fire-breathing monster. Lion's head, goat's body, serpent's tail.
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Bellicose
- (ADJ) war-like; eager to fight; aggressively hostile
- *Bellona was a little-kown Roman Goddess of war
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Blighted
- (ADJ) withered or destroyed
- EX: adj- The mayor submitted a proposal to help the blighted urban districts
- noun- Extravagance was the blight of the family
- very- Frost blighted the crops
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Assiduous
- (ADJ) constant; unremitting
- EX: Her assiduous emailing resulted in everyone ignoring her messages.
- She showed her assiduous affection
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Desiccate
(VERB) to dry up
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Epicurean
(ADJ) devoted to the pursuit of pleasure, especially to the enjoyment of good food and comfort
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Narrative Pace
speed at which an author tells a story; the movement from one point or section to another (Poisonwood is slow, thoughtful)
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Naive Narrator
A narrator who is uncomprehending (child, simple-minded) who narrates the story w/o realizing its true implications.
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Protagonist
Central character in a story - usually the hero or heroine but not always
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Prosody
study of sound & rhythme in poetry
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Omniscient Narrator
3rd person narrator who knows all (godlike) (Pride & Predjudice)
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