Acadenic Vocabulary

4. in Marxist theory, the property-owning capitalist class
6. the act of giving human qualities to ideas or inanimate objects
10. a system of beliefs or ideas, often political, held by a person, group, or institution
14. the lowest or poorest class
17. the entire scale or range
18. a figure of speech that makes a comparison between things that are not literally alike
19. pertaining to right and wrong conduct; fair
20. a figure of speech that compares two unlike things, introduced by the word like or as

1. first in importance, place, or time; chief
2. resembling utopia, an ideal place
3. occurring after death; published after the death of the author
5. pertaining to a government that uses dictatorial control and forbids opposition
7. the act of drawing a conclusion from evidence
8. environment; surrounding
9. a state where power rests with the citizens
11. to remove; to force out
12. the dominant theme in a literary or musical composition; a recurring element in a work of art
13. fear of poetry
15. difficult to understand; unclear; indistinct
16. the use of vivid descriptions to make mental pictures; mental images