Word Definitions

• Allegory
• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
• Analysis
• Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation
• Analyze
• examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of (something, especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.
• Annihilate
• destroy utterly; obliterate
• Atrocity
• An extremely wicked or cruel act; typically one involving physical violence or injury
• Captures
• To take into ones possession or control by force
• Characterization
• Portrayal; description.
• Context
• The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed.
• Disappearance
• An instance or fact of someone or something ceasing to exist
• Discourse
• Written or spoken communication or debate.
• Discourse Community
• Is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals.
• Dissolution
• The closing down or dismissal of an assembly, partnership, or official body
• Elergy
• a poem of serious reflection, typically a reflection on death.
• English Identity
• Explain
• Make (an idea, situation, or problem) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts or ideas.
• Grotesque Characters
• odd or unnatural shape, appearnce, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre 
• Heroic Couplet
• a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.
• Iambic Pentameter
• a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households, both alike in dignity
• Immigrant assimilation
• The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group: "waves of immigrants have been assimilated into the American culture."
• Indian Identity
• Interdeterminacy
• not able to be stated or described in an exact way
• Intertextuality
• One text talks about another text. (especially in moderism)
• Miscegenation
• The interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types.
• Mock epic poem
• draws heavily on the technique of satire, which means that it uses irony, exaggeration and sarcasm to mock its original subject, usually in an undignified and grandiose manner.
• Nationalist
• A person who advocates political independence for a country
• Obscurity
• The state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant
• Stream of Consciousness
• This style of writing is pegged to the Modernist movement. It is marked by the sudden rise of thoughts and lack of punctuations. The use of this narration mode is generally associated with the modern novelist and short story writers of the 20th century.
• Sublime
• of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe
• Unambiguous
• Not open to more than one interpretation
• Villainy
• Wicked or criminal behavior.