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

[i_read_dead_ppl]

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

Comments

[raistlinbrown]

Thanks for the lesson. Only knew one of them.

[anonymous]

Ummmmm.....even the definitions don't help me much!! Luv, Mom