Pre-Ap English 9 Final (Marcus)

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satire

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humorous writing/speech intended to point out failings of humanity and society

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allegory

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a work in which characters, event,s or settings symbolize something else

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tone

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the emotional attidtude toward the reader or towards the subject of a work

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mood/atmosphere

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the emotion created in the reader or towards the subject of a work

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exposition

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the place in a plot providing background information

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inciting incident

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beginning conflict

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climax

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the high point of interest and suspense

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resolution

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the place in the sotry where the central conflict is ended or resolved

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protagonist

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main character

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antagonist

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character causing the main conflict

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internal conflict

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an internal struggle

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external conflict

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a present confluct not inside the character; man vs man, man vs nature

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flashback

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a scene interrupting the chronolgical sequence of a literary work and presents an event that happened earlier

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narrative voice

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the way a writer uses language to reflect his or her personality

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(name story) 1st person detached

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TKAM, The Cask of Amontillado, parts of the Odyssey

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(name story) 1st person unreliable

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The Cask of Amontillado

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(name story) 3rd person omniscent

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Animal Farm, parts of The Odyssey

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symbolism

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when anything in a story represents both itself and something else

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motif

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any element in a story that keeps appearing more than once in one or more works

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theme

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a central message or perception about life revealed through a work

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concrete poem

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arrangement of works that creates a picture referring to theme

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dramatic monologue

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a poem written in the form of a speech by a single character to an imaginary audience

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metaphor

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a comparison not using like or as

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allusion

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a reference to a well known person, event, object, or work from history or literature

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simile

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a comparison using like or as

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lyric poem

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a highly musical type of poetry that expresses the character's emotions

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ballad

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poem that tells a story with a rhythm, usually meant to be sung

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meter

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a regular rhythmic pattern in poetry

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italian/Petrarchan sonnet

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14 lines long (ABBAABBA CDECDE (or CDCDCD))

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free verse

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poetry that does not use regular rhyme, meter or stanza division

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Shakespearean/English sonnet

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14 lines (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)

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assonance

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repetition of vowel sounds

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alliteration

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the repetition of initial consonant sounds

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consonance

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a kind of rhyme in which the consonant sounds match but vowels do not

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rhyme scheme

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a pattern of end rhymes designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each line

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rhyme

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repetition of sounds

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approximate rhyme

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rhyming sounds similar but not identical

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masculine rhyme

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occurs on final stressed syllables

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rich rhyme

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word rhymes with its homonym

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feminine rhyme

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occurs on multiple syllables

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eye rhyme

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looks like it rhymes but does not when spoken

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personification

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a figure in which an animal, thing, a force of nature, or an idea is described as if it were human

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haiku

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a traditional japanese three-line poem (5-7-5), traditionally about nature

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onomatopoeia

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sound word

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enjambment

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when a poet breaks a thought to continue on the next line

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parallelism

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a rhetorical device in which a writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form

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stanza

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group of lines in a poem

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repetition

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a writer's intentional reuse of a sound word, phrase, or sentence

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foil

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two characters designed to create contrast and highlight each other's traits

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turning point

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the moment where the protagonist makes a decision to change the outcome of the test

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oxymoron

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a word or group of words that contradict themselves

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aside

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a line spoken in a play that other characters cannot hear but the audience can

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monologue

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a speech by a single character

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soliloquy

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a monologue alone on stage about the character's thoughts and feelings

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homeric simile

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a simile that lasts several lines

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epic poetry

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a long narrative poem involving heroes and gods

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alter ego

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a secondary personality

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archetypal pattern

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a pattern of characters/events/etc that appears often throughout literature

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verbal irony

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when you say something but mean another

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dramatic irony

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when something is known to the audience but not to the characters

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situational irony

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plot twist

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comedy

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a lighthearted or humorous work with a happy ending

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tragedy

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tells the story of a fall of a person of high status

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narrative poem

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a poem that tells a story

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static character

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a character that does not change

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dynamic character

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a character that changes/develops

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round character

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a realistic character with many traits

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flat character

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a character that we only see one side of

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fort

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happening by chance (Latin)

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ausp

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bird watcher, fortune teller

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dest

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to determine

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sort

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chance, lot, fate

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propit

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favorable

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joc

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joke

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fest, fac, bacc

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festive, celebrating

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plaint/eleg

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to lament

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pec

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to sin, to be flawed

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pej, pair

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worse

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mal

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bad

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neg

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to deny, neglect

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fac

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to make do

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opus

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work, wealth, power, resource

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erg

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work

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labor

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work

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sta, sti

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stand, stay

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pos

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to put, place

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stas, stat

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standing

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ent, ess

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to be

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somn, sopor

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sleep

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lang

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to be weak, faint

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vigil

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watchful

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quies

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to rest

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verd, virid

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green

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cand

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white, pure

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pall

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pale

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livid

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bluish-black

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menelaus

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husband of helen, greek, forces the kings under him to fight with him

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helen

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most beautiful girl in the world, stolen by paris, rightful wife of menelaus

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achilles

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greek, strongest hero, kills and abuses hector's body, takes an arrow to the ankle

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paris

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trojan, told to decide the fairest goddess, steals helen

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hector

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trojan, greatest warrior, body disgraced by achilles for revenge

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priam

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father, redeems hector's body (illiad ends with hector's funeral)

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aeneas

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final living trojan

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agamemnon

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sacrifices daughter to stop artemis's wind

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odysseus

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super smart, comes up with plans for trojan horse

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ajax

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tries to kill agamemnon and achilles and is driven mad by athena

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how long was odysseus on calypso's island?

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7 years

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zefferelli

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older filmmaker

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luhrmann

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newer, leonardo di caprio

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karl marx

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old major

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internationale

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beasts of england

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communism

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animalism

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communist manifesto

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old major's speech

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russia becomes USSR

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farm becomes animal farm

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soviet flag

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animal farm flag

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tsar nicholas II

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farmer jones

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vladimir lenin

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old major

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josef stalin

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napoleon

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leon trotsky

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snowball

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russian orthodox church

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moses (sugar candy mtn)

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white russians

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molly (ribbons)

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bolsheviks

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goose, 3 young pigs, hens

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5 year plans

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windmill

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politburo

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pigs

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kremlin

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farmhouse

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cheka/KGB

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dogs

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moscow purge trials

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confessions

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hitler

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frederick-pinchfield

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non-aggression pact

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fake timber $$

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assertion

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statement presented as fact but not really true- is assumed

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bandwagon

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encouragement to follow the crowd

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card stacking

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selective omission of negative information

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glittering generalities

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use of words that people have to agree with

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plainfolks

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"just like you"