pentad
- noun
- /ˈpɛnˌtæd/
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pentada
- A classic pentad in literature often includes five key elements that enhance the story.
Examples
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The teacher grouped the students into a pentad to facilitate discussion in class.
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In the pentad since 2006, Northern Hemisphere and global tropical cyclone ACE has decreased dramatically to the lowest levels since the late 1970s.
Blog text (14) -
His concept of the "terministic screen" places language within its cultural context, and the Burkean pentad of act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose provides a set of operatives for a "dramatistic" examination.
Academic text (2014) -
Burke's pentad offers a "core structure" within which to isolate the constituent elements of Reben's and Smith's first three years as we move toward a fuller understanding of the "rhetoric of motives" revealed in their published narratives some twenty-five years later.
Academic text (2014) -
In mathematics, a pentad refers to any collection or sequence of five related items.
Synonyms
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The number after four and before six
Surface Forms
Morphology
pentad = pent + ad
Formed from the Greek combining form 'pent-' (five) plus the suffix '-ad'; these are not standalone English words, so an average B1 learner cannot derive the meaning from common English base words.
Etymology
Pentad comes from the Greek word pente, meaning 'five', and the prefix penta- you see in pentagon. So a pentad is simply a set or group of five, which is why it names five things or the number five.