Vocabulary - Keats

Question 1

Ambivalence (n)

Answer 1

The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

Question 2

Deify (v) deification (n)

Answer 2

V. To worship or regard as godlike

Question 3

Ephemeral (adj)

Answer 3

Adj describes something impermanent or which lasts for only a short time

Question 4

Melancholy (n) melancholic (adj)

Answer 4

N a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

Question 5

Transcend (v) transcendent (adj) transcendence (n)

Answer 5

v. To go beyond the range or limits of a field of activity or conceptual sphere

Question 6

Ecstasy (n) ecstatic (adj)

Answer 6

The state of being in extreme, almost hysterical happiness

Question 7

Ekphrasis (n) ekphrastic (adj)

Answer 7

The use of a detailed description of a work of visual art as a poetic device

Question 8

Indeterminate (adj)

Answer 8

If something is ambiguous, or not clearly categorised, then it is indeterminate

Question 9

Pastoral (n)

Answer 9

Writings are literary works which present idealised forms of country life