Light Orange Words & Lit. Terms

Dogma

• a dog's mother

• unconventional and slightly strange

• a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief

• Pulled or drawn tight

eccentric

• becoming weak

• slightly eccentric or mentally disordered

• Pulled or drawn tight

• unconventional and slightly strange

Rhetoric

• the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

• a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief

• Pertaining to a lion; having characteristics of a lion, such as fierceness and majesty.

• Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.

pixilated

• Pulled or drawn tight

• Impossible to stop or prevent

• Impossible to stop or prevent

• slightly eccentric or mentally disordered

taut

• becoming weak

• Pulled or drawn tight

• A contrast between expectation and reality

• slightly eccentric or mentally disordered

languishing

• becoming weak

• Pulled or drawn tight

• Showing an unwillingness to make concessions to others, especially by changing one’s ways or opinion.

• (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.

leonine

• A contrast between expectation and reality

• craving or consuming large quantities of food. Exceedingly eager or avid.

• becoming weak

• Pertaining to a lion; having characteristics of a lion, such as fierceness and majesty.

Irony

• Pulled or drawn tight

• a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief

• A contrast between expectation and reality

• Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.

Satire

• A contrast between expectation and reality

• A kind of writing that hold up to ridicule or contempt the weaknesses and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

• slightly eccentric or mentally disordered

• the

  art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use

  of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

allude

• suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at

• becoming weak

• the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

• Uncertain, Indefinite, or unclear character or meaning.