Words I have learned (or at least am in passing terms with) from a 900 level English grad class

Nov 16, 2009 22:54

Plus many more.

Epideictic.

Reification

Atavistic

Prolegomenon

Aporetic

Melic

Deictics

Epideictic: designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations"

Refication: to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.

Atavistic: reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type.

Prolegomenon: a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.

Aporetic: tending to doubt

Melic: noting or pertaining to the more elaborate form of Greek lyric poetry, as distinguished from iambic and elegiac poetry

Deictics: specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of one or more of the participants in an act of speech or writing, in the context of either an external situation or the surrounding discours

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