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20 Cards in this Set
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connotation
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How the joker has make up on to SCARE people
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Convention
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"whatever you say, don't say it twice, if you find your idea in anyone else"
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couplet
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I like to play games a lot
I loved when it was hot. My Good Summer Vacation By Zainab |
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elegy
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The tone is formal, the voice even; the feeling is scoured out. This is where time stops, breath stops. Every word stands naked, stands alone, facing a door, an opening
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Falling action
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Lennie runs away from the barn; the men return and find Curley’s wife dead; Curley leads a mob of men to search for and kill Lennie;
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diction
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"Without your intellectual and spiritual
Values, man, you are sunk." No one but squared The shoulders of his own unloveliness. |
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meter
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The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown; The berry’s cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. --Emily Dickinson |
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ode
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Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,
Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress, With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit Lady, not longer! |
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rising meter
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Now Ben had sail'd to many a place
That's underneath the world; But in two years the ship came home, And all her sails were furl'd. |
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understatement
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I wired these nerves together
Hoping for a chance to think on time And I'm tracing over your letter To see if your intentions are as good as mine |
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protagonist
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Students and those immediately around them represent multiple cultures individually as well as collectively;
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sub plot
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Parallel moments in a story, another issue in a story.
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reversal
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Reversal is the point in a story when the protagonist's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction. See is considered as the plot
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recognition
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“People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.”
Bob Nelson |
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sonnet
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Talking to myself there
Someone had overheard. I was lost for a word. There was nothing to share. Embarrassed I was there. Left awkward and absurd . A broken wingless bird. With nowhere to fly there. Caught red faced there was I. Didn't want to be seen. I just wanted to die. I just wanted to scream. I'm so terribly shy. Lost for words it would seem. |
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ballad
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I walk carelessly down the dark road
My heavy black boots constantly clicking Clicking on the cold cement My long black and velvet Trench coat |
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antagonist
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like the Joker in batman
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alliteration
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Becky’s beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.
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figurative language
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Simile A figure of speech in which a comparison is expressed by the specific use of a word or phrase such as: like, as, than, seems or Frost's favorite "as if,"
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spondee
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White founts falling in the courts of the sun
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run |