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74 Cards in this Set
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evade
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escape or avoid
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pretense
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falso show of apperance
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reprimand
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to peprove or correct sharply
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subtle
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not open or direct
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tainted
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to be not honest or "shady"
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prevelant
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widespread
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obliterate
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to destroy!
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venerable
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deserving respect because of age character or position
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zelous
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filled ith enthusiastic devotoin; passionate
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incensed
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made very angry
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immaculate
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unblemished;flawless; pure
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unperturbed
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undisturbed;calm
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adamant
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completely firm and unyielding
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retaliation
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the act of repaying an injury or wrong by commiting the same or similar act
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surmise
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to infer from little or no evidence;to guess
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abate
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to lessen or reduce in force or intensity
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irreproachable
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free from blame; falutless
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discord
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lack of agreement or harmony; conflict
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abhor
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to regard with disgust
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speaker
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voice of poem similar to a narrator in a work or prose
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stanza
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a group of lines forming a unit in the poem
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meter
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a regular patter of stressed unstressed that gives a line of poetry a more or less predictable rytham
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iambic
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stressed unstressed
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anaestic
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unstressed followed by one stressed
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monometer
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a line of verse of one measure or foot
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trimeter
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a verse of three measures or feet
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pentameter
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5 measures or feet
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internal rhyme
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rhyme that occurs within a single rhyme of poetry
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slant rhyme
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A partial or imperfect rhyme; words that are close to rhyming but don't
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alliteration
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repition of consonant sounds at the begining of words
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consonance
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reptiotoin of consant sounds at the middle or end of word
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similie
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comparison using like or as
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personification
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animal or object or force of nature is compared to a human like action
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imagery
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"word pictures"
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line
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1 segment in a poem that ends when another line is started
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rythm
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pattern of beats through line or poem
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foot
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group of syllables constituting a metrical unit of a verse.
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trochaic
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stressed ,unstressed
iambic is unstressed, stressed |
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dactylic
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stressed, unstressed, unstressed
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dimeter
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A line of poetry consisting of two metrical feet
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tetrameter
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3
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hexameter
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6
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end rhyme
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type of rhyme that ends the line
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rhmye scheme
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pattern that end rhyms form in a stnza or poem
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assonance
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repition of similar vowel sounds, like consonace but with vowls
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onomatopoeia
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word or phrase that imitates the suggested sound
ex: BANG, BOOM, TAP |
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metaphor
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comparisin not using like or as
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symbol
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perosn place or thing that exists literaly but also represents something else
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impercepitcle
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So subtle, slight, or gradual as to be barely noticable
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dimeter
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A line of poetry consisting of two metrical feet
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tetrameter
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3
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hexameter
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6
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end rhyme
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type of rhyme that ends the line
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rhmye scheme
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pattern that end rhyms form in a stnza or poem
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assonance
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repition of similar vowel sounds, like consonace but with vowls
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onomatopoeia
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word or phrase that imitates the suggested sound
ex: BANG, BOOM, TAP |
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metaphor
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comparisin not using like or as
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symbol
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perosn place or thing that exists literaly but also represents something else
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impercepitcle
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So subtle, slight, or gradual as to be barely noticable
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who wrote the sky tree
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joseph bruchac
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who wrote the crucible
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Arthur Miller
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who wrote poor richards almanack
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ben franklin
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who wrote the ministers black veil
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nathenel hawthorne
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who wrote the devil and tom walker
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washington irving
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who wrote the story of an hour
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kate chopin
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who wrote the occurrence at owl creek bridge
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ambrose bierce
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who wrote to a waterfowl
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Bryant
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who wrote old ironsides
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oliver wendel helms
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who wrote the 1st snowfall ****
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james russel lowell
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who wrote the tide risest the tide falls
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henry wansworth longfellow
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who wrote the concord hymn
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ralph waldo emerson
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washington irving
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yougnest of 11 children
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jon edwards
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wrote from sinners in the hands of an angry god;
presdestionation |
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nate hawthaine
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father died when he was born
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