Frankenstein unit vocabulary

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• novel a fictitious prose narrative of book length representing character and action with some degree of realism
• edition a particular form or version of a published text
• setting the place and time at which a novel is represented as happening
• genre a category of literature characterized by similarities in form style or subject matter
• theme an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature
• prose written language in its ordinary form without metrical structure
• narrator a character who recounts the events of a novel
• classic a work of art of recognized and established value
• grant to agree to give or allow to
• reject to refuse to agree to
• refuse to show that one is not willing to do something
• found to establish
• persuade to induce someone to do something through reasoning or argument
• account a report or description of an event or experience
• impact the effect or influence of one person, thing, or action, on another
• double-edged sword a situation or course of action having both positive and negative effects
• pursuit the action of following or pursuing someone or something
• injustice lack of fairness or justice
• science fiction fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes
• Romanticism a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century emphasizing inspiration subjectivity and the primacy of the individual
• Gothic fiction an English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudomedieval setting
• the Enlightenment a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
• Industrial Revolution the rapid development of industry that occurred in Britain in the late 18th and 19th centuries characterized by the use of steam power, the growth of factories and the mass production of manufactured goods
• Arctic relating to the regions around the North Pole
• Romantic relating to or denoting the artistic and literary movement of romanticism
• artistic relating to or characteristic of art
• radical advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change
• philosopher a person engaged or learned in philosophy
• atheist a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods
• feminist a person who supports women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes
• outcast a person who has been rejected by society or a social group
• extensive large in amount or scale
• tense causing or showing anxiety and nervousness
• desolate deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness
• corrupted showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain
• key of paramount or crucial importance
• elope to run away secretly in order to get married
• emerge to move out of or away from something and come into view
• pursue to continue or proceed along
• revolt to cause to feel disgust
• congregate to gather into a crowd or mass
• narrate to give a spoken or written account of
• publish to prepare and issue a book for public sale
• reissue to make a new supply or different form of a book available for sale
• acquire, procure to obtain
• appreciate to recognize the full worth of
• lustrous shining
• sole only
• dreary boring, dull
• hideous ugly or unpleasant
• inanimate lifeless
• livid dark bluish grey
• endeavour to try very hard
• delineate to describe
• behold to see
• conceive to imagine
• detain to hold back
• endure to bear
• start to jump
• corpse dead body
• palpitation heartbeat
• agony extreme mental suffering
• moderation avoidance of excess or extremes
• complexion skin
• feature a part of the face
• limb an arm or a leg
• hue color or shade
• toil work
• fatal leading to failure or disaster
• amiable friendly
• prejudiced having distrust based on fixed ideas
• chief most important
• irresolute not able to take decisions or actions
• dwelling a place of residence
• countenance the appearance or expression of someone’s face
• fair a public event in the countryside where farm animals and farm products are sold
• benefactor someone who gives money to a person or organization
• virtue the general quality of being morally good
• diffuse to spread through or into a surrounding substance by mixing with it
• commence to begin
• oblige to please or help someone
• bestow to give something as an honor or present
• instigate to cause an event or situation to happen by your actions
• dart to move quickly or suddenly
• refrain to not let yourself do something

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