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49 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Who is Niobe?
Who is Tantlus?? |
Queen of Thebes with 7 Kids
His Punishment in the underwprld was to have no food and water. |
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Hecate is the...
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Goddess of Sorcery adn Richcraft
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Cathahrsis
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Purging of Unhealthy Emotions
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Foil
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Opposite Character
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Citadel
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Surrounds the city and protects it
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Insolence
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Bold Disrespect
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Diviner
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Fortelling the future through signs
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Senile
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Mentally Impaired
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Augury
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The Skill of foretelling the future
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Malicious
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Mean, Spiteful
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Somberly
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Gloomy, Solemnly
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Piety
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Loyal
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Regent
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Period of Time where ruled.
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Thespis
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Actor & Actress
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Comedy
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Happy Endings
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Allegory
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Characters and places represent all
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Alliteration
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Repeating consanant sounds.
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Allusion
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Reference
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Anachronism
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chronological;Out of Time
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Assonance
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Repeating of Vowel Sounds.
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Blank Verse
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_'_'_'_'_'
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Comma Splice
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Incomplete Thought
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Diction
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Word choice
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Elegy
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Funeral Poem
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Epic Hero
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Larger than Life Hero
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eulogy
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Funeral Speech
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Euphemism
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Harsh Word Replacement
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Exposition
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First Facts of a story
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Figurative Language
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Not Literal
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hyperbole
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Exaggeration ( She cried her eyes out)
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Imagery
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Word Pictures
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Irony
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Difference
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Onomatepoeia
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A word that sounds liek waht it means
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Paradox
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Self Conadictory Statement
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poetic License
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An Agreement with a writer . Alter Reality
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Prologue
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Few Facts ahead of time
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Propaganda
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Presenting Lies as facts
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Pun
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Play on words
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Revising
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Adding subtracting rearranging words
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Run ons
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2 incomplete thoughts
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Satire
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Writing that makes ufn of something that needs changed.
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sentence gragments
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partial sentence
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situaltional irony
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suprise ending of story
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soliloquy
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solo speech
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symbol
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stand for beyond itself
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tradegy
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Unhappy ending
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tragic Flaw
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Main Character Flaw
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Verbal Irony
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Sarcasim
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Voice
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Writers Personality
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