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106 Cards in this Set
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augment
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to make larger, increase
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bereft
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deprived of;made unhappy
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fortitude
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courage in facing difficulties
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gibe
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to utter taunting words; expression of scorn
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insidious
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intended to deceive or entrap; sly, trecherous
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intimation
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a hint, indirect suggestion
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opulent
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wealthy, luxurious
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stolid
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not easily moved mentally or emotionally;dull
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verbatim
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word for word;exactly as written or spoken
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adroit
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skillful
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averse
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having a dep-seated distate
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belligerent
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given to fighting, warlike
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benevolent
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kindly, charitable
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cursory
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hasy, not thorough
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duplicity
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treachery, deceitfulness
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feasible
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possible, able to be done
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impervious
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not affected or hurt by
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impetus
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a moving force
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meticulou
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extremely careful
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quitessence
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the purest essence or form of something
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artifice
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a skillful or ingenious device
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coerce
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tocompel, force
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craven
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cowardly
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inclement
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stormy, harsh
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precedent
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an examle tha tmay serve as a basis for imitation or later action
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punitive
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inflicting or aiming at punishment
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redress
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to set right, remedy
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urbane
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refined in manner or style, suave
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pretentious
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pretends to more value and meaning tha the text supports
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critical distinction
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ability to make thoughtful an ddiscriminating points
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opinion
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a point of view, normally personal whcih does not equal fact/truth
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restrait
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holding something back
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character
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series of symbols on a page
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simile
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comparison of 2 unlike items using like or as
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dream vision
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a depiction of superior-symbolic-reality dream
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archetype
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timeless basic symbol of reality
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allusion
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referrence to a literary work, historical event, piece of art etc
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questia
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an internet online library
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MLA
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modern language association. the SAA citation authority style
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works cited
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citation for only the works quoted or directly referrenced in the papre
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bibliography
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a list of all works consulted in order to write the paper
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dumped quotation
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a quotation which sits in a perper waiting for the audience to swallow; it with no writer explination of it's importance
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quote
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verb
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quotation
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noun
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transition
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the bridge between 2 ideas
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second person
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no second person in formal writin
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present tense
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all literature happening now
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synopsis
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retelling of the storry
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audience
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who the work is directed to
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connotation
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feeling, context, emotion of a word
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denotation
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dictionary meaning of a word
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grammar
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a kid of common lavguage vocab
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parts of speech
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designation of the nature of the use of a word, normally in a sentence
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noun
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person, place or thing
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verb
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expresses a state of being
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pronoun
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a word tha ttakes the place of a noun
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adjective
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a word that describes or modifies a noun or the function of a noun or pronoun
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adverb
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word that describes or modifys verbs, adj. or other adverbs
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conjuction
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a word tha tunifys 2 parts of a sentence (and, but, or, so, for)
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preposition
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words that begins a phrase
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interjection
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an explosion of feeling
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complete subject
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covers all of eth words up to the beginning of the complete predicate
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complete predicate
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from beginning of simple predicate to teh end of the sentence
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simple subject
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what the sentence is talking about
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simple predicate
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preforms/responsible for state of being
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compound subject
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2+ designations that tell what teh sentence is talking about
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compound predicate
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who/what/responsible for it's being that preforms the action in teh 2+ words
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complements
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complest the sentence (completse subjects/predicates)
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action verb complemetns
-direct object -indirect object |
-what or who recieves the action
-whom or what or for whom recieves teh action |
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linking verb somplements
-predicate adjectives -predicate nomitive |
-describes the noun
-renames the noun |
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OED
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Oxford English Dictoinary
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JOurnal
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something between a formal writing and a diary
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bildungsroman
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formation of principal character
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vignette
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small picture
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initiation
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welcome in, started
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figurative language
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language which designates realithy beyond the immediate sense
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proletarian
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social class literature particularly of a lower one
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feminist literarture
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literature hsa an awareness of eh condition of being woman
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barrio
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poor, culturally homogeneous area, normally hispanic
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vorgriff
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alwasy b eing in a state of want and never being satisfied
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muse
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greek mythological women that are inspiratoin for art
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3 fates
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measure, pulls, cuts the life span
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witches
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past, present and future of esperanza's life
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aesthetic
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branch of science that studies beauty
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action/plot
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teh movement an dit's complications and coflice
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setting
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the time and plce of teh story
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characterization
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presentation of beings in motion and in thought
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theme
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place where the world of the story touches the real world
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language
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teh artist's manipulatoin of words for effect
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transcipt
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acedemic progress
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letter of recommendation
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specific to personal talents, giges, accomplishments, kind o preson, acedemic
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resume
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a list of acomplishments
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strafford-upon-avon
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city where shakespeare was born
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shakespear's types of plays
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comedys, historys and tragedys
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chronology
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account of the events of the play in order
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sonnet
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14 lined lyrical poem
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pun
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use of the same sounding words with different meanings for humour
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baudy
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expression of sexual matter
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double entremdre
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second meaning, especially sexual
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humours
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a theory of medieval and renaissance medicine in which human disposition is dominated
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oxymoron
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expression of apparant contradiction
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imagery pattern
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desigation imagery pattern of the play
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentametre
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technical climaz
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point from which the action must ascend (comedy) or descend (tragedy) to it's logical conclusion
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shakespeare's 5 act structure
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I-exposition
II-rising action III-climax IV-falling action V-catastrophy |
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apostrophye
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a direct address to something
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