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27 Cards in this Set
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Thing or person in one time period.
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Anachronism
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When a small thing happens when you expected too much.
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Anticlimax
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Short saying
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Aphorism
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Using high language. *Language that says 'I'm better than you'*
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Bombast
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When something gets cutout.
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Bowdlerize
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Purging of the emotions or Relieving of emotional tensions
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Catharsis
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A five-line stanza.
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Cinquain
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Slang
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Colloquialism
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Expectation
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Convention
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Decay of moral order
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Decadence
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Rant
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Diatribe
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Direct and to the point
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Didacticism
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Badly written poem
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Doggerel
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Serious
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Epicurean/Stoic
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Giving something episodes
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Episodic
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A brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person.
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Epitaph
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End of poem.
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End-stopped Line
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False
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Fallacy
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Peaceful
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Idyll
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Implyed
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Innuendo
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Rejection of moral principles.
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Nihilism
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Short novel.
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Novelette/Novella
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No talking.
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Pantomime
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1. A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
2. Classical Prosody. a verse consisting of two dactyls, one long syllable, two more dactyls, and another long syllable. 3. unrhymed verse of five iambic feet; heroic verse. |
Pentameter
*Also called elegiac pentameter.* |
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of, pertaining to, or resembling rogues
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Picaresque
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An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp. A wandering beggar; a vagrant. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard. |
Rogue
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Appearance of truth
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Verisimilitude
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