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53 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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story that represents another
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representation
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Allusion
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reference to something well known
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Antithesis
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opposite
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male-female
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Diction
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word choice
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Epithet
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nickname
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Hyperbole
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intensifies the situation
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Loaded Language
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intensifies the words
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Metaphor
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comparison that doesn't use like or as
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Parallelism
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words repeated
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Simile
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comparison using like or as
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Syntax
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sentence structure
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Abomination
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greatly disliked
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Adamant
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firm or stubborn
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Beguile
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trick or device
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Halloween
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Caustic
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really mean
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Condescending
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speaking down to audience
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Contemptuous
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strong disapproval
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Conformity
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changing to fit in
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Conjure
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to bring about or summon
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Crucible
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a container that can withstand heat
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Daft
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stupid
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Didactic
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preachy
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Disdainful
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strong disapproval
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Evade
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avoid
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Flippant
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rude without the intension of harm
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Gaunt
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pale or sickly
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Heathen
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non religious person
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Hostile
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angry with the intention of harm
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Indignant
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anger due to in just
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Laudatory
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praising
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Macabre
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most extreme~ scary
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Melancholy
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deeply sad
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Mirthful
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jolly
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Nostalgic
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desire To go back to the past
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Poignant
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deeply affects emotion
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Probity
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integrity
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Qualm
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issue or worry
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Remorse
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Feeling sorry or guilty
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Reprieve
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fight back, get revenge
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Rhetoric
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Art of persuasion
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Sobering
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abruptly snap back to the present
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Solemn
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serious
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Theocracy
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government controlled by church
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Trepidation
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fear
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Oriteator of Liberty
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Patrick Henry
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The Crisis
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Thomas Paine
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Speech to the 2nd Virginia Convention
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Patrick Henry
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Father of American poetry
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William Cullen Bryant
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Nature and Self Reliance
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Emerson
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The Sage of Concord
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Emerson
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The poet of the people
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Longfellow
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Thanatopsis
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Bryant
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Walden
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Thoreau
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