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17 Cards in this Set
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exhortation
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noun
a ple, sermon |
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peevish
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adjective
hard to please, irritable |
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argosies
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Noun
A large ship |
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edifice
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noun
a large building |
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commendable
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adjective
to put in care of another, helpful person, nice |
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prodigal
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adjective
extremely generous |
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abridged
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adjective
to shorten content, using fewer words, but keeping the main content |
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situational irony
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when events are opposite to expectations of character reader, or both
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renowned
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adjective
famous |
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requite
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verb
to repay...not with money, like with a fight |
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surfeit
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noun
to great of an amount |
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forfeit
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noun
someone who looses or gives up, due to some reason |
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imputation
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verb
finding fault with another |
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drama
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your lives everyday
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soliloquy
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monolouge to the audience not to other character, speaking to oneself
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aside
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a line spoken by a character that other characters supposedly cannot hear, but the audience can
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dramatic irony
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when audience or reader knows what character does not
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