Describes a person
Can be metaphorical
Verbs
Aristotelian tragedy
Random review
100

Not talkative

laconic

100

"Your argument is easy to understand."

pellucid

100

"He's so amazing."

lionize

100

"I feel much better now."

catharsis

100
Term: When internal character tensions in Dostoevsky's works are not resolved.

unfinalizability

200

"Anything you say!"

obsequious

200

"Your essay is all over the place, with so many different points that I can't tell what's happening."

cacophony

200

"They did it."

inculpate

200

"What have I done?"

anagnorisis

200

Tiresias is this archetype

blind seer (or, potentially, Holy Fool)

300

"Make up your mind, already!"

capriocious

300

Eclipsed

obscured

300

"You're not being forthcoming with me."

prevaricate

300

"But things were going so well..."

peripeteia

300

Jocasta's hubris

thinking she could flee Fate by attempting infanticide

400
firmly traditional

orthodox

400

"You've got a lot to say."

copious

400

"That's wrong."

gainsay

400

"I know better than you."

hubris

400

why Moses (Exodus) resists the Call

he has a speech impediment

500

"I forgive you"

magnanimous

500

"You're hiding your main point behind unnecessary details."

adulterate

500

"I told you not to walk on a broken foot."

exacerbate

500

"Oh my, what happened to her is so awful."

eleos

500

the Promised Land for Black Moses, and why it subverts Exodus

Pointe Noire; is the opposite of Paradise