Tuesday, September 9, 2014

SCENE II TERMS

Recapitulates- To give a brief summary of something.
Pillory & Stocks-Wooden framework with holes for the head and hands in which the offender was imprisoned and exposed to public abuse. Physical punishment involving public humiliation; victims were often exposed in a public place and scorned by passerby’s. The difference is stocks are when their feet are locked in place, and sometimes as well their hands or head, or these may be chained.
  
                 Pillory                                Stocks
Impugn-Dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or motive; call into question.
Miscegenation- Marriage or relationship between 2 people of different races
Illicit Assignation- Illicit=assignment; Assignation= forbidden by law, rules, or custom, illegal.
Causality v. Correlation- two are very closely related but different; correlation is the relation existing between phenomena and mathematical and statistical variables; causality is how closely two sets of info are closely related.
Germane- relevant, it fits in
Racial Tenor- course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; general meaning of race; racial theme/message
Yom Kippur- “Day of Atonement”, most important holiday of the Jewish year
“Color Jump on her intellect”- a way of explaining what happens when color blinds you/ race plays a role in everything.

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