Brenissa Flores : VOCABULARY #8

1. Circumlocution- (n.) an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

2. Classicism- (n.) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms

3. Cliché- (n.) a trout or obvious remark

4. Climax- (n.) the decisive moment in a novel or play; arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

5. Colloquialism- (n.) characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

6. Comedy- (n.) light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents

7. Conflict- (n.) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); the reference of an expression

8. Connotation- (n.) an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

9. Contrast- (n.) the act of distinguishing by comparing differences; the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); (v.) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared; be different

10. Denotation- (n.) the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name

11. Denouement- (n.) the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events

12. Dialect- (n.) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

13. Dialectics- (n.) a rationale for dialectic materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces

14. Dichotomy- (n.) being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses

15. Diction- (n.) the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience

16. Didactic- (adj.) instructive (especially expressively)

17. Dogmatic- (adj.) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving drama; of or pertaining to a characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative