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76 Cards in this Set
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Admonitory
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- tending or serving to admonish; warning
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Aesthetic
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- pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics
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Ameliorate
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- to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate
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Appease
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- to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles
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Assimilate
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to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc.
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Avarice
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- insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.
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Bellicose-
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inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
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Benign
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- having a kindly disposition; gracious
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Callow
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- immature or inexperienced
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Caveat
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a warning or caution; admonition
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Crony
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- a close friend or companion; chum
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Deference
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respectful
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Digress
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- to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing
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Dissuade
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- to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often fol. by from )
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Docile
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- easily managed or handled; tractable
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Effigy
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- a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
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Egregious
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extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant
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Enunciate
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- to utter or pronounce (words, sentences, etc.), esp. in an articulate or a particular manner
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Exalt
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- to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate
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Fortuitous
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- happening or produced by chance; accidental
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Furtive
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- taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret
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Genial
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- warmly and pleasantly cheerful; cordial
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Guile
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- insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity
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Hedonistic
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- a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification
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Incessant
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- continuing without interruption; ceaseless; unending
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Inert
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having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to ACTIVE )
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Ingratiating
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- charming; agreeable; pleasing
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Insatiable
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- not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased
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Intuitively
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- perceiving by intuition, as a person or the mind -Latent- present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential
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Lechery
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- unrestrained or excessive indulgence of sexual desire.
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Loath
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- unwilling; reluctant; disinclined; averse
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Lull
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- to put to sleep or rest by soothing means
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Morose
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- gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
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Mundane
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- common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative
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Myriad
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- a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things
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Palpable
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- capable of being touched or felt; tangible
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Perdition
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- a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation
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Permeate
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- to pass into or through every part of
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Poignant
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- affecting or moving the emotions
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Predilection
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- a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference
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Querulous
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- full of
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Replicate
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- to repeat, duplicate, or reproduce, esp. for experimental purposes
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Salient
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- prominent or conspicuous
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Semantic
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- of, pertaining to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols
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Somnolent
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sleepy; drowsy
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Stark
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- sheer, utter, downright, or complete
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Sullen
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- showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve
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Supple
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- bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; pliant; flexible
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Tedious
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- wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker or writer; prolix
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Tempest
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- a violent windstorm, esp. one with rain, hail, or snow
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Timorous
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- full of fear; fearful
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Trepidation
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- tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation
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Visage
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- the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
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Volition
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- the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing
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Wily
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- full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning
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Xenophobic
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- an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign
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Allusion
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- reference to a well-known person, historical event, or literary work
EX. Dante's inferno in J alfred prufrock |
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Assonance
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- the repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction of dissimilar consonant sounds
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Blank verse
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- poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Example: Robert Frost’s “Birches” |
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Consonance
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- the repetition of similar final consonant sounds at the ends of words
Example: In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost, the repeating ē sound in deep, keep, and sleep |
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Dialect
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- the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group
Mark Twain’s “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the way Simon Wheeler speaks such as “…well, there was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley |
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Dramatic irony
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- a contradiction between what the audience knows and what the character thinks
Example: In “The Story of an Hour,” the doctor says that Chopin dies from “joy that kills,” but we know that she actually feels free upon her husband’s death when she says “Free! Body and soul free!” |
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End rhyme
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- When rhyming words are repeated at the ends of lines
Example: In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” deep, keep, and sleep are stanza’s last words |
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External conflict
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- a conflict between a character and society, nature, another person, God, or fate
Example: In “The Catcher in the Rye,” Caulfield has an external conflict with society as a whole |
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Flashback
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- section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events to relate an event from an earlier time
Example: In “Death of a Salesman,” Willy has flashbacks to when Biff and Happy were kids |
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Foreshadowing
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- the use of clues to suggest events that have yet to occur
Example: In “Death of a Salesman,” the rubber hose is meant to foreshadow Willy’s suicide |
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Free Verse
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- lacks a regular rhythm pattern, or meter
Example: “In a Station of the Metro,” is a free verse poem that lacks a formal rhythmical structure |
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Hyperbole
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- deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, often used for comic effect
Example: In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” the claim that Jim Smiley would follow a bug as far as Mexico to win a bet is a hyperbole |
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Imagery
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- the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
: In “The Red Wheelbarrow,” the description of the wheelbarrow gives us a clear picture |
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Internal Conflict
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- conflict occurring within the mind of a character
ex. holden |
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Juxtaposition- placing two or more objects or ideas together so as to compare and contrast them
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- placing two or more objects or ideas together so as to compare and contrast them
Example: In “The Catcher in the Rye,” death and love/sex are juxtaposed. While Holden is at Ernie’s, he sees a “Yale-looking guy” at a nearby table, talking about suicide while “feeling” the girl he’s with |
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Metaphor
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- a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else. Does not use like or as
Example: In “Walden,” Thoreau says “Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in…” |
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Motif
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- a recurring subject, theme, or idea
Example: In “The Catcher in the Rye,” alienation (of Holden) is a constantly recurring idea |
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Realism
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- the presentation in art of the details of actual life
Example: In “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Bierce describes the horrors of war realistically |
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Slant rhyme
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- occurs when the rhyming sounds are similar, but not exact (such as prove and glove)
Example: In “The Soul Selects her Own Society,” Dickinson says “Choose One---…Like Stone---“ |
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Theme
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- a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work
Example: In “The Catcher in the Rye,” a major theme is loneliness. We see Holden alienate himself with his red hat. Later, Phoebe says that he doesn’t like anything |
