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25 Cards in this Set
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Acerbic
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sarcastic, caustic, bitter
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Envoy
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a person designated to represent one government in its dealings with another
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Fatalistic
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of a belief that events are fixed in advance and thus humans cannot alter the events
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Axiom
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a statement accepted as true
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Homily
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a sermon
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Elegy
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a poetic tribute to a person who had died or is absent
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Heroic Couplet
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a rhyming couplet in imabic pentameter
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Pedantic
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showing off one's learning or erudition
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Adagelike
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like an old saying
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Enjbambment
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when one poem line carries over to the next
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Metonymy
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word association
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Conceit
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an elaborate metaphor
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Arcane vocabulary
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secret, mysterious, obscure
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Inchoate
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only partly in existance or operation
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Polemical
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controversial, contentious, argumentative
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Terza rima
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tercets usually written in iambic pentameter and rhyming like aba, abb, aab
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Fastidous
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difficult to please; scornful, nit-picky
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Trochaic
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a foot where the first syllable is stressed and the second isn't
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Aphorism
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an adage (consise statement, "waste not, want not")
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Epigram
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a short, witty, wise, often paradoxical statement
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Chiasmus
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an inverted relationship between syntactic elements of parallel phrases
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Penurious
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stingy; miserly; frugal
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Epistrophe
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repitions of a word at the ends of phrases ("of the people, by the people...")
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Sestina
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six unrhymed sextets where in the ends words of the first stanza reappear as end words in a rotation in the other stanzas
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Acolyte
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a follower
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