| A | B |
|---|
| Provincial | unsophisticated, outmoded |
| Haughty | proud |
| Acrid | unpleasantly pungent or choking |
| Rectitude | morality or decency |
| Senile | deteriorated through age |
| Unsullied | faultlessly unblemished and pure |
| Jaunty | lively, dashing, self-confident |
| Duplicity | deceit or unfaithfulness |
| Prospect | outlook or expectation |
| Acquiescence | agreement or submission |
| Audacious | bold |
| Cascade | waterfall or ongoing gushing |
| Inquisition | investigation or interrogation |
| Mien | appearance, bearing or expression |
| Affront | to insult or disrespect |
| Factitious | not spontaneous; forced or contrived |
| Ardor | passion or fervor |
| Naïve | inexperienced or unsophisticated |
| Stature | physical build or height |
| Minutiae | finer points or details |
| Condescension | arrogant disdain |
| Impart | to communicate or inform |
| Wistful | longingly thoughtful |
| Divine (v.) | to discover or deduce |
| Felicitous | fortunate or lucky |
| Pious | devoutly moral and religious |
| Reproach | blame or criticism |
| Futility | uselessness or pointlessness |
| Frivolity | lightheartedness or triviality |
| Indubitable | unquestionable or definite |
| Sanctify | to make holy or purify |
| Profane | wicked or sacrilegious |
| Affliction | suffering or misery |
| Device | ruse, stratagem or trick |
| Capricious | impulsive or unpredictable |
| Crafty | sneaky, shrewd or sly |
| inept | incompetent or inexpert |
| brazen | boldly unashamed |
| abashed | ashamed or embarrassed |
| worldly | mature, knowing, or sophisticated |
| risqué | daringly close to impropriety or indecency |
| Conceit | elaborate metaphor |
| Hyperbolic | exaggerated |
| Chiasmus | a crisscrossed reversal in the order of words or concepts in two otherwise parallel phrases: he came in triumph and in defeat departs |
| Periodic sentence | a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense, as in Unable to join the others at the dance because of my sprained ankle, I went to a movie. |
| Irony | a twist between what is expected and what occurs |
| Anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. |
| Interior monologue | a form of stream-of-consciousness writing that represents the inner thoughts of a character |
| Diction | word choice |
| Flashback | a transition in a novel, movie, story, etc. to an earlier point in time |
| Dramatic irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters themselves |
| Personification | attribution of human qualities or emotions to an inanimate or non-human subject |
| Oxymoron | A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect: “She is just a poor little rich girl.” |
| Rhetorical question | a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply, as “What is so rare as a day in June?” |
| Metaphor | The comparison of one thing to another without the use of words such as like or as |
