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65 Cards in this Set
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prose
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nonpoetic writing
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poesy
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poetry
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epic
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narrative, heroic poem
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idyll
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poetic view of rural life
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couplet
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two rhyming lines
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doggerel
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poor or trivial verse
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caesura
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pause in poetry
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epilogue
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concluding section
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anthology
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collection of literary works
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tome
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large book
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disquisition
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formal essay
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allegory
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symbolic story
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hyperbole
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exaggeration
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personification
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embodiment or attribution of human quiliaties
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irony
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inconsistency between appearance and reality
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paradox
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statement that says two opposite things with an element of truth
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pun
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play on words
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browse
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look over casually
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peruse
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examine carefully
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collate
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compare or arrange
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plagiarism
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stealing words or ideas
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elocution
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art of speaking
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declaim
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speak loudly and rhetorically
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forensic
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pertaining to public debate
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repartee
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witty conversation
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colloquy
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conversation
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soliloquy
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act of talking to oneself
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symposium
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conference
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prate
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chatter idly
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reticence
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state of being quiet
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mummery
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masked performance
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tableau
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representation of a scene
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syntax
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arrangement of words
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collocation
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arrangement
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idiom
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characteristic form of expression; correct but unusual expression
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diphthong
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two vowels united into a complex sound
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lexicon
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dictionary of vocabulary words
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italic
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fine, slanted type
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caret
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writer's symbol for insertion
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parenthesis
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explanatory words inserted in a sentence
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cuneiform
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wedge-shaped writing
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notation
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system of symbols; record
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emendation
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correction
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prosaic
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dull and ordinary
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stilted
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pompous or formal (hesitant)
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terse
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concise (negative connotation)
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succinct
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concise (positive connotation)
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discursive
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rambling
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allude
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refer to indirectly
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iterate
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repeat
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dictum
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authoritative pronouncement
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conundrum
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puzzle or riddle
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ineffable
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inexpressible
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epithet
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descriptive name
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pseudonym
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fictitious name
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alto
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second-highest voice
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treble
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threefold; high-pitched
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ballad
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narrative poem or simple song
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recitative
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sung conversation
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libretto
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words of an opera
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descant
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one melody above another
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etude
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musical study
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thrum
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strum; low vibrating sound
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dulcet
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soothing and agreeable
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dissonant
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disagreeing; unharmonious
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