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27 Cards in this Set
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stop
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stay
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structure for a corpse
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bier
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to kneel to the ground in humility
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prostrate
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surrounded
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environed
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mutilated
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mangled
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beat
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dash
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a digging tool similar to a pickax
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mattock
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sword
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rapier
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gladly
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fain
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citizens
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civil
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where the dead are placed
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charnel house
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you
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thee
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i believe
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methinks
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burial cloth
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shroud
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upset
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distraught
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to ask seriously
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beseech
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ancestor
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forefathers/ kinsman's
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extreme devotion to a person or thing
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idolatry
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skewer
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spit
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hostility
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enmity
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a character who serves as a contrast for another character
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foil
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symptoms include physical and emotional devastation, sleeplessness, sighing, and weeping
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courtly love
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a speech delivered before the action starts that sets the scene for the play that is to follow
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prologue
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a combination of contradictory terms
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oxymoron
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a short remark usually directed to the audience and not intended to be heard by the other characters
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aside
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a long, virtually uninterrupted speech that is spoken in the presence of other characters
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monologue
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a speech, usually lengthy, in which a character who is alone on stage expresses his or her thoughts aloud
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soliloquy
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