Poetry vocab

Question 1

contention

Answer 1

heated disagreement

Question 2

tumult

Answer 2

loud confusion or disorder, chaos

Question 3

unadorned

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plan and simple without decoration

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frugal

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sparing or economical with resources, especially money

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banality

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unoriginal and boring

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quotidian

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everyday, ordinary, commonplace

Question 7

homogeneity

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sameness, lack of variety or diversity

Question 8

proustian

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relating to involuntary memory and rich nostalgia

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domesticity

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home life, focus on family or household activities

Question 10

urban and pastoral

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blending city life and country side life

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temporality

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relating to time or passing of time

Question 12

morbidity (morbid curiosity)

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obsession with death, disease or disturbing subjects

Question 13

non-descript

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lacking distinctive features - unremarkable

Question 14

transitional

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change from one state to another

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disparaging

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treating something as of little worth

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rueful

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expressing sorrow, regret or pity

Question 17

purgatorial spaces

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spaces symbolically representing suffering or waiting for purification

Question 18

metaphysical

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concerned with abstract thought, existence or beyond the physical

Question 19

disembodies

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separates from the body, abstract or ethereali

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impressionable

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easy influenced or shaped by outside forces

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impotent

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weal, powerless, meaningless

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sacrosanct

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extremely sacred or inviolable

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indelible memory

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a memory that cannot be erased, deeply lasting

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twee

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overly sweet, sentimental or quaint

Question 25

anti-nationalist

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opposing extreme national pride or dominance

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freighted

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burdened or loaded heavily

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codifies

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arranges into system or organised plan

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prosaic

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mundane, everyday life

Question 29

agrarian

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agriculture linked

Question 30

temperance

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never ask more than they are due - take what they are supposed to take.

Question 31

fecundity

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the ability to produce an abundance of offspring or new growth; fertility.

Question 32

synaesthesia

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blending of senses

Question 32

prosaic

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unoriginality

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paean

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something that praises other things

Question 34

corporeal

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relating to a person's body, especially as opposed to their spirit involving or relating to the physical world rather than the spiritual world

Question 35

mellifluous

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(of a sound) pleasingly smooth and musical to hear.

Question 36

*facsimile

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an exact copy, especially of written or printed material

Question 37

elegiac

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relating to or characteristic of an elegy

Question 38

chivalric

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medieval codes, renaissance images

Question 39

fae-like

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refers to fairies or the fae folk, mythical beings found in European folklore

Question 40

*Revelations imagery

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a meaning that is rich in apocalyptic symbolism, moral urgency, and a vision of divine judgment and redemption. e.g. Drawing on the Book of Revelation, she evokes themes such as: Spiritual Warfare and Struggle as one of them.

Question 41

negate

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make ineffective; nullify.

Question 42

eschatological

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relating to death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

Question 43

apocalyptic

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describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world

Question 44

eschatology

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the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

Question 45

psychomachia

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internal conflict of the soul

Question 46

solipsistic

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a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing

Question 47

formative

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serving to form something, especially having a profound influence on a person's development

Question 48

discordant

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disagreeing or incongruous

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sated

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satisfy (a desire or an appetite) to the full

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guesswork & supposition

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a belief held without proof or certain knowledge; an assumption or hypothesis

Question 51

akin

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similar or related, often implying a shared characteristic or origin e.g. akin to High Anglican oral tradition/liturgical observation and repeated rituals

Question 52

*scansion

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he analysis of a poem's meter—specifically, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse e.g. the regular scansion of the poem creates the effect of a musical lament

Question 53

fallible

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not perfect and are likely to make mistakes or to fail in what they are doing

Question 54

corporeal

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relating to a person's body, especially as opposed to their spirit.