Unit 1 - Vocabulary

"An elephant, a ponderous house" Plath

• blissfully happy

• extremely beautiful and delicate

• Slow and clumsy because of great weight

Metaphor

• a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison

• a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration

• a series of words that begin with the same consonant sound

"A melon strolling on two tendrils." Plath

• a rotating wheel or gear

• a hollow container

• a slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines around any suitable support.

HALE: Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.

• a remarkable person, thing, or event

• a thing of little value or importance

• a hazardous experience or activity

"MRS PETERS: Well, you mustn't reproach yourself, Mrs Hale. Somehow we just don't see how it is with other folks until—something comes up." Glaspell

• address (someone) in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment.

• make someone feel honored and pleased.

• give authorization or consent

"COUNTY ATTORNEY: (facetiously) Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. She was going to—what is it you call it, ladies?" Glaspell

• expressing or suggesting mourning.

• being in a state of extreme agitation

• treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

"SHERIFF: They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.)" Glaspell

• free from emotional or mental agitation

• to make (someone) feel embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed

• to be forced or obliged to do something

"MRS PETERS: Somebody—wrung—its—neck." Glaspell

• to put in good shape or working order again

• to twist something

• to make smooth by friction

"the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive someone saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion,..." Plato

• to make an incorrect judgement about something or someone

• to have discussions; exchange opinions.

• form or devise (a plan or idea) in the mind.

" And if they were in the habit of conferring honors among themselves on those who were quickest to observe the passing shadows and to remark which of them went before, and which followed after, and which were together" Plato

• to have discussions; exchange opinion

• form or devise (a plan or idea) in the mind

• to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)