Chapter 122 - Midnight Aloft.- Thunder and Lightning — Vocabulary
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville — key words and definitions
Vocabulary Words from Chapter 122 - Midnight Aloft.- Thunder and Lightning
- lashings (noun)
- Ropes or cords used to tie or secure something firmly in place, especially on a ship.
- main-top-sail yard (noun)
- The horizontal spar (pole) on the mainmast from which the topsail is hung; one of the highest working positions on a sailing ship.
- aloft (adverb)
- Up in or to the rigging or masthead of a ship; high above the deck.
- bathos (noun)
- An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional or intentional shift from the sublime or serious to the trivial or ridiculous.
- soliloquy (noun)
- A speech in a drama in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals thoughts while alone on stage.
- apostrophe (noun)
- A rhetorical device in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person, a dead person, or an abstract concept (such as thunder).
- pragmatic (adjective)
- Dealing with things sensibly and realistically, based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.