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21 Cards in this Set
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decree
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ruling or official announcement
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encumbrance
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burden or hindrance
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expound
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explain or elaborate on
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firmament
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heaven, sky or basis or foundation
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ghetto
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part of a city where a group is forced to live by law, poverty or prejudice
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indiscriminately
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arbitrarily, haphazardly, or randomly
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mysticism
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spirituality or direct communication with or knowledge of God
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premonition
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forewarning, intuition or feeling about the future
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prominent
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famous or outstanding
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waif
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orphan or stray
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anachronism
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a mistake in time in a story (film, play, poem)
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motivation
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reasonm for taking action (love. fear, need for money all examples)
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logic
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making reasonable connectins between things
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allergory
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one text or story is a model or behavior; the denotations of the story have broad connotations
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cataclysm
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the freat flood in human prehistory or any tremendous, disaster that destroys a part of theearth or civiization
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Musical Comedy
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a genre of theatre in which songs nd music are part of a play usually in a musical comedy the characters sing when the emotios are too great to contain
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Conventions
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norms of behavior r agreements about presentation. the convention of musical comedy is to interagrate songs with an otherwise realistic plot
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The Fourth Wall
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a convention of the theater (tv or film) in which the actors pretend that the audience or camera isn't there. the fourth wall ameks us feel as if we're watching something real and intimate
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Adaption
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changing tect or story from one genre to another
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Allusion
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when one text or story refers to another
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Satire
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a play, film, tv show or other kind of story that makes fun of social customs or politics
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