Foucault, "What is an author?"

Foucault, "What is an author?"

Some advanced vobaulary from the 1969 lecture-turned-essay on authorship.

Find the best synonym/definition of the following words:

1. Scansion

A mountaineer
An art-work of exquisite beauty
A bar-room brawl
A metrical pattern of a poem
An outlier on a boat


2. Exegesis

An exposition of a particular topic
An explanation or critical interpretation
A detailed explication of a meaning
An expression of earnest opposition or protest
A cathartic experience


3. Antecede

To come before
To come after
To come in between
To point back
To bring forth


4. Immanence

The state of being outside a domain
The result of transcending a domain
The state of being aligned with a spiritual plane
The state of being within a domain
The state of being without a domain


5. Effacement

A withdrawal, an obliteration
A courageous feat
A proving of strenght
An embarrassing defeat
A belittlement, a malicious charge


6. Concomitant

Deliberate, purposeful
Disconnected, detached
Integral, pertinent
Extraneous, inappropriate
Simultaneous, concurrent


7. Expound

To grieve
To protest
To declare
To affirm
To console


8. Scission

The act of sifting
The act of dividing
The act of listing
The act of siphoning
The act of conjoining


9. Licit

Illegal
Immoral
unethical
Lawful
Moral


10. Expiate

To cast out an evil spirit
To invoke evil, to incantate
To hold a religious ceremony
To avert evil by religious ceremony
To perform magic