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20 Cards in this Set
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anecdote
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(noun)
a short acount of an interesting or humorous incident |
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anthropomorhism
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(noun)
atribution of human motivation,characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects,animals or natural phenomena |
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aphorism
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(noun)
a brief statement of a truth or opinion;a saying or adage |
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archetype
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(noun)
an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned;an ideal example of a type |
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construe
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(verb)
to explain the meaning of;interpret;to analyze the grammatical structure of (a sentence) |
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deduce
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(verb)
to reach a conclusion by reasoning;to infer from a general principle; to trace the origin of |
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epigram
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noun
a short witty poem expressing a single thought otr observation;a concise,clever,often paradoxical statement or saying |
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etymology
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(noun)
the origin and historical development of a word's forms,meanings,and usages |
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infer
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(verb)
to conclude or reason from evidence, premises,or circumstance;to hint or imply |
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irony
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(noun)
the use of words to express something different from, and often opposite to,the literal meaning;a literary style employing such contrast for witty effects;an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occured |
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onomatopoeia
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(noun)
the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with the objects or actions to which they refer |
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personification
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(noun)
a person or thing typfying a certain quality or idea;an embodiment or exemplification;a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human forms |
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perspective
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(noun)
mental view or outlook;point of view;the ability to see things in their actual interrelations or comparitive importance |
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prose
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(noun)
the ordinary speech or writing,without metrical structure (as in poetry) |
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protagonist
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a main character in a drama or other literary work |
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pun
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(noun)
a play on words |
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rhetoric
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(noun)
the art or study of using language effectively and persuasively |
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satire
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(noun)
a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony or wit |
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soliloquy
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(noun)
a dramatic or literary form of discouse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts with out adressing a listener |
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trite
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(adj)
lacking power to invoke interest through over use or repetition; hackneyed |
