- Meter: rhythm in language that is recognized through beat patterns
- Metrical Verse: a structure of lines, rhythmic energy, and repetitive sound; meant to be read aloud
- Memoir: the mostly true story of what the author has learned through life
- Mentor: teaches and protects the hero; Gives the hero magical gifts to help complete the quest; Often tied to nature or religion; could be a failed hero who is trying to help the next generation
- Monologue: a lengthy speech by a single character
- Motif: a conspicuous element that recurs throughout a story
- Myth: stories told in pre-literate cultures to explain the universe, mankind’s existence, and how to live in community; a culture's sacred stories
- Negative Capability: a concept developed by John Keats to describe the way some writer’s explore things through their absence
- Objective: the author presents the information or story with a detached tone
English 4
- Belie: to show to be false; contradict
- Bellicose: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent
- Boisterous: rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy; clamorous; unrestrained
- Bona fide: made or carried out in good faith
- Bourgeois: affluent, middle-class folk who are conventional, conservative, or materialistic
- Brusque: abrupt in manner; blunt; rough.
- Camouflage: a device or stratagem used for concealment
- Carte blanche: unconditional authority; full discretionary power.
- Caustic: capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue; severely critical or sarcastic
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