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130 Cards in this Set
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A heated argument
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Altercation
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A dictionary; a specialized vocabulary
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Lexicon
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A particular shade of a given color
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Hue
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To startle into sudden activity
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Galvanize
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Permission; support
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Sanction
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Extreme exaggeration for effect and not meant to be taken literally
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Hyperbole
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Threatening; foreboding evil
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Ominous
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Rude boldness; nerve
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Audacity
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To demonstrate clearly; to prove
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Evince
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Unable to be appeased or pacified
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Implacable
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To urge on with stirring words
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Echort
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To put in prison; to confine
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Incarcerate
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Sharp; keen; cutting straight to the heart of the matter
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Incisive
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Practical; providing an immediate advantage
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Expedient
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Having to do with the subject at hand; relevant
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Pertinent
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Unable to act or move; inactivel sluggish
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Inert
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To get around; to bypass
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Circumvent
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Secret
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Clandestine
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To find not guilty of a fault or crime
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Acquit
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To express disapproval of
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Deprecate
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Lawyer
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Barrister
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Excessive praise or admiration
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Adulation
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Having to do with the kitchen or cooking
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Culinary
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Indecent; Humorously obscene
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Bawdy
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To punish severely
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Chastise
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Joking, humorous
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Jocose
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A very large number
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Myriad
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Present; hidden but not active
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Latent
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Destructive; deadly
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Pernicious
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Thrifty; econimical in money matters
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Frugal
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Lightness of disposition; lack of seriousness
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Levity
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A practical joke; a trick
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Hoax
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Friendly; peaceable
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Amicable
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Aggressively boisterous; stubborn and defiant
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Obstreperous
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Delighted beyong measure
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Enraptured
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Having to do with marriage
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Marital
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To lie in or be exposed to warmth
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Bask
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Friendly; amiable
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Genial
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One who pretends to have professional knowledge in order to swindle others
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Charlatan
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Commonplace; of the earth and not spiritual
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Mundane
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Likely to change on a whim or without apparent reason
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Fickle
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A terrible destructive or irresistible force
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Juggernaut
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Simple in natre; not affected or worldly; Especially innocent
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Naive
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Having to do with the night; occuring at night
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Nocturnal
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A beginner; one who is inexperienced
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Novice
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Harmful to the health
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Noxious
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To cooperate secretly in wrongdoing
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Connive
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Nerve; audacity
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Chutzpah
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A lord, master, or sovereign
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Liege
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Hatred
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Odium
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Coarse; tasteless
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Crass
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Overly critical; too severe in judgement
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Hypercritical
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A mistaken notion; a misconception
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Fallacy
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Self-satisfied; smug
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Complacent
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To confuse; to perplex
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Befuddle
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A wild disorder; noise, or onfusion
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Pandemonium
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Excessively thrifty; stingy
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Parsimonious
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Using more words than are needed; wordy
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Verbose
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Worthy of praise; Commendable
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Laudable
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Not wise or judicious; imprudent, as in speech or action
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Indiscreet
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To cause another's pride to be wounded
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Pique
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The study of language
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Linguistics
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A commoner; one from the lower class
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Plebian
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Showing early development, especially mental
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Precocious
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Inclined to prey on others
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Predatory
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Superior skill or ability
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Prowess
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Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsom
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Pugnacious
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To steal
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Purloin
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Cowardly, fearful
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Pusillaninmous
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To put an end to; to allay or quiet
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Quell
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Very idealistic; impractical; caught up in romantic notions
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Quixotic
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A disorderly crowd, a mob
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Rabble
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Raging; fanatical
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Rabid
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A person skilled at telling stories or anecdotes
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Raconteur
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Seeking revenge; bearing a grudge
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Vindictive
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Familiar saying
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Adage
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Substantial; solid
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Corporal
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Darling; pet
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Minion
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Turn red
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Incarnidine
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Dregs; Sediment found at the bottom of a bottle of wine
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Lees
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Wooden handle
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Dudgeon
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Slaves; captives
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Thralls
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Without equal
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Nonpareil
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Masks
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Vizards
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Cheerful (Macbeth)
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Jocund
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Wash
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Lave
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Murder of one's father
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Parricide
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Made a coward of
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Cowed
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Remaining
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Tarrying
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Reinforced
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Forced
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Chills, fevers
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Ague
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Predictions
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Bodements
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Conscript into military service
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Impress
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Seeds
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Germens
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Mirror
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Glass
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Reference to a famous person, place, or thing
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Allusion
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A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage
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Aside
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Anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation
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Atmosphere/Suspense
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When the cosmos (the universe) reflects the deeds of men on earth
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Cosmic Sympathy
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The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
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Dialect
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A metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas
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Extended metaphor
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Returning to a former part of the story to bring you up to date
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Flashback
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The author gives clues and hints as to what is going to happen
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Foreshadowing
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The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas
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Imagery
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Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
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Irony
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Occurs when a character’s actions bring about unexpected results
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Situational Irony
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A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant
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Verbal Irony
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The meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
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Dramatic Irony
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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another
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Metaphor
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A statement that seems to contradict itself, but is true on some level
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Paradox
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A word or phrase is repeated several times
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Repetition
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When two things are compared using “like” or “as"
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Simile
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A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or
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Soliloquy
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Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or
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Symbol
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A dramatic telling of a serious story in which the protagonist though his own fault is brought to a catastrophe
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Tragedy
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The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables
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Alliteration
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A change in normal word order
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Inversion
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Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse
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Internal rhyme
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a type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and narrative poetry
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Lyric poetry
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The measured arrangement of words in poetry
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Meter
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A poem that tells a story from a narrator's point of view
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Narrative poetry
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The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to
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Onomatopoeia
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A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities
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Personification
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One of the divisions of a poem
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Stanza
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A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza
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Refrain
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The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza
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Rhyme scheme
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A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes
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Sonnet
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A sonnet that is made up of two stanzas
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Petrarchen; Italian Sonnet
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A sonnet that is made up of three quatrains and one couplet
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Shakespearean; English; Elizabethan Sonnet
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A poem that tells a story
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Dramatic poetry
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