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94 Cards in this Set
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Premise
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a propsition upon which a argument is based
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commiseration
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teh feeling of sorrow or pity
sympathy |
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supposition
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the act of guessing and assuption
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Ambiguous
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1 having multiple interprition
2 doubtful or unclear |
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adamant
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firm in purpous or opinion
unyealding stubon |
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derison
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the act of mocking
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commendatory
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express approcval and praise
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obtuse
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lacking quickness in perception or intalect
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Irony
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when the literal meaning is diffrent than the intended meaning
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satire
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a literary work that uses irony, hyperbole, parody, and wit to ridicule an idea or belief
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allegory
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a story that can be read on 2 levels literal and figurative- every chariters and place represnets something else
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protagonist
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the leading charactor in a literay work (hero)
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antagonist
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the opponent to the protagonist fo hero
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hyperbole
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an exagerated staement used as a figure of speach (i have a thousand pencils)
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forshadowing
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when early events hints at someting to come
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hamartia
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mistaken choice; tragic characteristics of being too human
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Hubris
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excessive pride; type of tragic flaw
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Tragic flaw
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a character trait or quality that leads to the hero's downfall
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motif
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a reoccurring pattern within a stary, either visual or thematic
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dionysian
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referring to greek god dionysus, the quality of human nature that is wild, disordaly, spontainious and savage
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appollonian
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refuring to the greek god apollo, the quality of human nature that is civil orderly ridgid and stable
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Theme
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the key idea of a story
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simile
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a mettaphor using like or as
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metaphor
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when two diffrent things are compaired
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monomyth
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a pattern that every story fallows. loss journy test return
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historic metaphor
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another patter that prequently occurs in stories, when events or time periods in a story represents events or time periods in history
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ontogentic metaphor
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a metaphor that frequently appears in stories when a character metaphorically goes through diffrent stages of the human life cycle
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nostalgia
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longing for the past
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ovidianism
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nostalgia, modern society is corrupt, progress as regress,
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genre
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a catagory or type of litary composition: novel, short story... some genres however are more specific: mystery novel, fantisy
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stoicism
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the philosophy of indiffrence to one's surroundings finding tranquility no matter what occurs
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mood
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the emotional response a work creates. ex) to build a fire- hopeless, bleak _____
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setting
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where and when a story takes place
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syntax
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the way in which word are put togetherto form a sentence
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tone
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the writers attitude twards a suject can be bitter, nostalgic, cynical, ironic, reverent...
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7 conficts
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man VS. ____
man, god, nature, science, macine, self, society |
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dicton
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a writers choice and use of words
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symbol
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something that represents something else
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connotation
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the suggested, inplied meaning of a word or idea
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denotaion
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the dictionary deffinition of a word
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persona
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an alternate personality on author or chariter takes on
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garden of eden
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Genesis
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4 ages
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ovid
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crushed petunias
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tennessee williams
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other side of the hedge
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EM Forster
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daedalus and icarus
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ovid
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musee des beaux arts
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wh auden
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deer in the works
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kurt vonnegut Jr.
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the lottery
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shirley jackson
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to biuld a fire
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Jack London
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Sound of thunder
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ray bradbury
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A&P
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jhon Updike
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Landscape with the fall of icurus
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William carlos williams
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to a friend whos work has come to triumph
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anne sexton
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the wayfinder
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Robert coover
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Night
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elie Wiesel
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Anthem
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ayn Rand
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urbane
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polite refined and often elegant in manner
civil cosmopolitan cultured |
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lark
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a carefree or spirited adventure
Prank andventure antic |
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demeanor
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the way in which a person behaves
deportmentair bearing mannor |
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din
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a jumble of loud dicordent sounds
clamor tumalt |
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jaunty
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having a buoyant or self confident air
airy buoyant |
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benign
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of a kind and gentle dispotion
amiable benevolent graciou favorable |
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judicious
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having or exhibiting sound judgment prudent sagacious astute sensible
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intangable
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incapable of being percived by the sences
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Pall
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1 a covering for a coffin
2 any covering |
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appendage
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something added or attached to a more improtant entity
attachment limb |
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reiterate
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to say or do something again or repeatedly
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minipulate
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1 to operate or control by skilled use of hands
2 to influenceor manaeg in a shrewd way menover mold manage influence |
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apathy
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lack of intrest or concern
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monotonous
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tidous, rpetitive or lacking in variety
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methodical
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marked by order or sysematic habits and or behaveior
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protrude
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to push outward
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profuse
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lavishly extravegant
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repremand
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offical or sharp rebruke
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porfuntory
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done mearly out of self pity
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boisterous
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rough noisaly exuberant
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jovial
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marry and genial
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intermanable
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endless, tidiouly long
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annihlate
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to distroy compleatly
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infetisimal
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immensily small
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caverness
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huge
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bisect
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to cut in to
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undulate
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to move in a smoth manor
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parchment
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sheep or goat skin used like paper
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Relative pronoun
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Who Whoever Whom Whomever What That whose
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Subordinate conjunction
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After, Although, As, As long as, As if
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Coordinating conjunction
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But Or Yet So For And nor
boysfan |
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10 preps
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Aboard
About Above Across After Against Along Amid Among Around |
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Prepositional Phrase
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A group of words that begin w/ preposition
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Participle phrase
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Single, double, adverb, its, prep phrase
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Subordinate/dependent-
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can’t stand by itself as a sentence, needs a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun, requires a main clause to be a complete sentence, it leaves you asking, and so.
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Main/ independent clause
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can stand by itself as a sentence
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Appositive
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Renames a subject
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