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28 Cards in this Set
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Laxity |
(n): a tendency of being too easy-going, or not strict enough (usually negative; usually has a consequence or outbreak) |
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Apocryphal |
(adj): (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true |
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Eviscerate |
(v): to remove the entrails of or gut; to take away a vital or essential part of; to deprive of something |
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Verve |
(n): an energetic style or vitality |
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Discursive |
(adj): tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects (adj): used to describe an argument based on reason instead of intuition |
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Monotonous |
(adj): sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch |
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Myriad |
(n): a large indefinite number; (adj): too numerous to count |
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Elusive |
(adj): skillful at avoiding capture; difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe |
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Incense |
(v): to cause to be extremely angry; to infuriate |
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Rapport |
(n): a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people; affinity; kinship |
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Laxity sentence |
Ms. Healy's laxity is only an illusion... as she says, she holds very high standards for her students. |
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Apocryphal sentence |
The apocryphal statement that Obama was not born in America became popularized by Donald Trump and his supporters, but later revoked by Trump and blamed on Clinton. |
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Eviscerate sentence |
I eviscerate a carton of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream like it's my last meal on earth. |
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Verve sentence |
The verve with which a good jazz musician plays his/her instrument always makes the audience bop along. |
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Monotonous sentence |
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Myriad sentence |
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Metafiction |
fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality/ literariness of a work or departing from novelistic conventions |
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Zeugma |
an expression in which a single word stands in the same grammatical relation to two other words, but it does not have the same figurative meaning |
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Authenticity |
the quality of being genuine or real |
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Voice |
tone, choice of words, choice of content, and even punctuation |
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Diction |
the choice of words used in a literary work |
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Tone |
the writer's attitude toward the material and/or readers |
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Mood |
The emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader |
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Anaphora |
repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the the writer's points |
