vocabulary in paradise lost book 1

1. By
BHARGAV RAM.C
GOPINATH.K
NITHIN CHAKRAVARTHI.I
III MECHANICAL
N.B.K.R. INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(Approved by AICTE: Accredited by NBA: Accredited ‘A’ Grade by NAAC& ISO 9001:2008 Certified)
Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur

2. John Milton (1608-1674)
• Mid-seventeenth century
poet and political activist
• Wrote against the
corruption of King Charles
and The Church of
England
• Was totally blind by the
time he wrote Paradise
Lost, dictated the entire
thing to his secretaries

3. “The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of
heaven.”
John Milton

4. The poem concerns the Biblical story of
the Fall of Man the temptation of Adam and
Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their
expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton
stated his purpose in Book I is to "justify the
ways of God to men".
Though Milton invokes a lot of Christian imagery, it
is best to view this as a work of fiction, totally
unrelated to religion. Your religious views are
irrelevant to this reading.

5.  John Milton wrote the poem in blank verse
Paradise Lost was written on the biblical theme
of the fall of man
Paradise Lost has two narrative arcs, one about
Satan (Lucifer) and the following Adam and Eve

6. Book IX is the longest book in Milton’s
Paradise Lost
 Book VII is the shortest book in Milton’s
Paradise Lost
10 books were included in the first edition of
the poem ‘Paradise Lost’
12 books were included in the second edition of
the poem ‘Paradise Lost’

7. BOOK I:-
This gives a brief introduction of the fall of Adam and
Eve caused by the serpent, which was Satan, who led
the angels in rebellion against God and was cast into
hell. The scene opens with Satan lying in a confused
state in the burning lake along with Beelzebub who
was next in command beside him. Satan exhorts his
fallen legions on the shore where he revives their
spirits by his speech. They set to building a palace,
called Pandemonium. There the high ranking angels
assemble in council.

8. BLANK VERSE(noun):-
 A type of poetry that does not rhyme , usually with ten
syllables in each line
PANDEMONION(noun):-
 A situation in which there is a lot of noise and confusion
because people are excited, angry or frightened

9. MUSE (verb):-
 To think or meditate in silence,as on some subject
 To think about something carefully and for along time
EX:-
 I began to muse about the possibility of starting my
own business

10. INVOKE(verb):-
 To request help from someone,especially god,when
you want to improve a situation
EX:-
 The members of the tribe will invoke water from the
gods by performing a rain dance

11. IMPIOUS(adjective):-
 Showing no respect, especially for god or religion
EX:-
 Satan (lucifer) is impious person he himself treated as a
god
EXALT(verb):-
 To praise someone a lot
EX:-
 In church, we exalt our god in prayer.

12. DELUGE(noun):-
 A very large amount of rain or water
 A great flood of water
EX:-
 The little stream can become a deluge when it rains
heavily
 The news paper received a deluge of letters about the
article

13. LEVIATHAN(noun):-
 Something or someone that is extremely large and
powerful
EX:-
 The US is seen as an economic leviathan
 Because the elephant weighs over ten thousand
pounds, he is considered to be the leviathan of the
zoo

14. ENMITY(noun):-
 A feeling of hate
 A feeling of strong dislike or opposition
EX:-
 American – Russian enimity has been a powerful
driving for centuries

15. PERDITION(noun):-
 A statement of punishment that goes on forever, believed
in some religious to be suffered by evil people after death
 Another word for hell
EX:-
 The families of the murder victims wished the killer to
perdition during the sentencing hearing.

16. ODIOUS(adjective):-
 Desrving or causing hatered
 Hateful
 Extremely unpleasent and causing or deserving
hatered
EX:-
 To me, all spiders are odious creatures

17. DAUNTLESS(adjective):-
 Showing determination and no fear
 Fearless , bold
EX:-
 Inspite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers
struggled on with dauntless optimism

18. ZENITH(noun):-
 The best or most successful point or time
EX:-
 Before I retired I had reached the zenith of my carrier
ROUT(verb):-
 To defeat an opponent completely
EX:-
 Russian chess team routed all the rest

19. DEFIANCE(noun):-
 Behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or
something
EX:-
 American people are defiance to their president decision
of not allowing the muslims to their country

20. PROVIDENCE(noun):-
 The care and control of a god or of a force that is not
human in origin
EX:-
 He trusts in divine providence

21. REPROBATE(noun):-
 A person of bad character and habbits
 A person rejected by god
EX:-
 Adam and Eve are reprobate after eating the
forbidden fruit

22. EXPATIATE(verb):-
 To speak or write about something in great detail or
for a long time
EX:-
 Richard didn't understand the lesson so he asked his
teacher to expatiate on the subject.

23. THRONG(noun):-
 A crowd or large group of people
EX:-
 In assembly a huge throng had gathered around the
speaker
JOCUND(adjective):-
 In a happy mood
EX:-
 The soldiers were jocund as they stepped off the plane
and into the arms of their waiting families.

24. BALEFUL(adjective):-
 Threatening to do something bad or to hurt someone
EX:-
 With baleful eyes, the vulture stared at the injured
rabbit

25. QUERY