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79 Cards in this Set
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Querulous
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Irritable or cranky
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Intuitive
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Instinctive or untaught
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Divergent
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Moving apart
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Novice
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Beginner
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Emulate
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Follow an example
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Censure
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To criticize harshly
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Theme
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A unifying or dominant idea
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Mundane
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Ordinary common
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Collaberate
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Work together
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Vindicate
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To clear from blame
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Hackneyed
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Overused
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Subtle
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Elusive, sly, tactfully done
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Tenatious
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Persistent, resolute
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Sagacity
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Wisdom
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Frugal
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Thrifty
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Situational Irony
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When something happens in a story that is the opposite of what is expected
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Verbal Irony
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Saying the opposite of what is meant. Sarcasm
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Dramatic Irony
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When the reader knows something that the main characters do not know
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Opulent
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Wealthy
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Enhance
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Improve
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Diligent
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Hard Working
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Disdain
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To regard with scorn
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Suppress
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To end an activity
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Anecdote
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A short account of an event
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Asylum
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Sanctuary
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Spurious
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Phony, false
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Intrepid
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Fearless, adventurous
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Hypothesis
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Theory requiring proof
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Tactful
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Diplomatic, polite
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Transient
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Temporary, fleeting
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Arid
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Extremely dry
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Wary
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Watchful, alert
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Circuitous
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Indirect, round about
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Cairvoyant
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Able to see the future
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Impetuous
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Rash, impulsive
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Inconsequential
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Trivial, unimportant
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Parched
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Dried up
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Longevity
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Long life
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Resilient
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Quick to recover
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Adversity
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Misfortune, hard times
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Inference
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coming to a logical conclusion from things known/proven to be as well as assumed things
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Reclusive
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Withdrawn, hermit like
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Empathy
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Experiencing the feelings of another as though they are your own.
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Symbolism
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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities symbolic meaning given to natural objects or facts.
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Foreshadowing
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A literary device in which the author hints about something that will happen in the future
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1st person
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Narrator is a character in the story
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3rd person omnicient
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Reader knows everything about every character
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3rd person limited
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Reader only knows thoughts and feelings of one character
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Is 3rd person ever a character in the story?
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No. NEVER
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Rhyme scheme
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Roses are red A
Violets are blue 🅱 I picked up a snake C And used it to scare you 🅱 |
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Internal rhyme
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Words that rhyme with each other INSIDE a line of poetry
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Amphi
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On both sides
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Myth
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Story
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Scope
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To see, watch
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Phobia
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Fear
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Extra
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Beyond
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Phile
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One that loves
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Mania
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Madness, insanity
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Juvenile
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Young
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Gram
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Letter
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Nat
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Born
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Hyper
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Excessive or over
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Micro
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Small
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Somn
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Sleep
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Anthrop
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Human, man
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Mal
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Bad, ill
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Archa
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Old, ancient
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Semi
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Half
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Hydro
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Water
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Aqua
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Water
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Cranio
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Skull
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Aud
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Hear
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Ocu
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Eye
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Init
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Beginning
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Log
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Word
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Jud-Jur-Just
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Law
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Quer-Ques-Quir
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Ask or seek
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Gon
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Angle
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Onym
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Name
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