encomium
(en)
a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
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these novels' lofty, encomiastic view of pure math
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these novels' lofty, encomiastic view of pure math
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belles-lettres
(en)
a category of writing derived from the French phrase meaning "beautiful" or "fine" writing; includes all literary works—especially fiction, poetry, drama, or essays—valued for their aesthetic qualities and originality of style and tone
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books like these are belles lettres, literature, for which the audience is, again, usually small and rather specialized
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books like these are belles lettres, literature, for which the audience is, again, usually small and rather specialized
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florid
(en)
(adjective) very flowery in style; ornate / tinged with red; ruddy / marked by emotional or sexual fervor / elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated
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whose florid life story
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whose florid life story
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bathos
(en)
(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
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Also vague and kind of bathetic is the novel's depiction of actual mathematical work
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Also vague and kind of bathetic is the novel's depiction of actual mathematical work
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schlemiel
(ji)
a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person
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the neurotic schlemiel
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the neurotic schlemiel
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solecism
(en)
a grammatical mistake in speech or writing
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riddled with ESL-ish solecisms
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riddled with ESL-ish solecisms
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propitiate
(en)
(verb) to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of; appease
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the Minotaur, a hideous teratoid monster who has to be secreted in a special labyrinth and propitiated with human flesh
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the Minotaur, a hideous teratoid monster who has to be secreted in a special labyrinth and propitiated with human flesh
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encomium
(en)
a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
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much of that criticism consisting in apologiae, encomiums
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much of that criticism consisting in apologiae, encomiums
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entr'acte
(en)
an interval between two acts of a play or opera
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the little italicized entr'actes in Hemingway's In Our Time prose poems?
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the little italicized entr'actes in Hemingway's In Our Time prose poems?
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anaphora
(en)
(noun, literary theory) repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect
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heavy-handed use of anaphora, ploce, repetend, and/or alliteration
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heavy-handed use of anaphora, ploce, repetend, and/or alliteration
I guess I forgot the meaning I had memorised for IB English
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