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Raze |
completely destroy (a building, town, or other site). |
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Reticent |
not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily. |
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Retort |
say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner. |
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Subvert |
undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution). |
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Tractable |
(of a person) easy to control or influence. Easy to deal with. |
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Assonance |
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). |
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Asyndeton |
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. |
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Attitude |
can be referred as perspective or tone of the writer he adopts in a certain work. |
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Ballad |
a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB. Ballads are usually narrative, which means they tell a story. Ballads began as folk songs and continue to be used today in modern music. |
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Ballad Stanza |
a four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. |
