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Allusion
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a reference to an historical event, person, or something else outside of literature.
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ambiguity
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expression of an idea in such a way that more than one meaning is suggested
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i am big guilty, AND THATS MORE THEN ONE MEANING
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analogy
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comparison of two things usually made by an author to show how something unfamiliar is like something widely known
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anaphora
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repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines or sentences
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ANA PHORA THE LAST TIME< STOP REPEEETIN YOUR WORDS in THE BEGININ
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Antithesis
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contrasting ideas presented in parallel structure
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Apostrophe
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direct address of an inanimate object or someone who is absent
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A POST TROPHE WILL GO TO The TROPHE HIMSELF!~
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Archetype
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Original model for persons appearing later in history or characters appearing later in literature.
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Go go ARCHETYPE! FOR LATER IN THE BOOK!!
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Assonance (Arthur)
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repetition of vowel sounds
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THE ASS ON AN AGGRAVATING AARDVARK
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Ballad
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narrative poem originally meant to be sung, repetition and refrain characterize the ballad
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BOB THE BALD BARD OF BALLADS! he also likes psalms!!!
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Cacophony
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Harsh, rough, or unmusical language
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Carpe Diem Poetry
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poetry that stressed the brevity of life and living life to its fullest
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Caesura
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pause or stop within a line a poetry, usually indicated by a punctuation mark.
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WHO GOES THERE! CEASE.... OOHHHRRAHH!!!!!
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Common Meter
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Quatrain with first and third lines iambic pentameter, second and fourth lines iambic trimester. abcb or abab
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THEY CALL ME COMMON BUT DONT LET MY FIRST AND THIRD FIVE WiVES CONFusE YOU, or my SECOND AND FOURTH THIRD WIVES. ababababbabababababbabab
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Conceit
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an elaborate metaphor often strained and far-fetched
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THe eleborate receit strained and then fetched far for a bisquit.
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Connotation
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Suggestion of a meaning of a word beyond what is explicitly denotes or describes
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Consonance
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repetition of consonant sounds other than at the beginning of words.
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repeat some sounds away from the beginning will do you well
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Continuous Form
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poetry tht is not broken up into stanzas
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Couplet
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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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Denotation
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dictionary definition of a word
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DE NOTE NATION LIKES THE DICTIONARY
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diction
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word choice
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Dramatic Irony
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failure of a character to see or understand what is obvious to the audience
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Elegy
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poem lamenting the dead
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End stopped line
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a line of poetry that has a pause or stop at the end indicated by a punctuation mark
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Punctuate this you bastard.
oh you actually did it. ouch. not again. |
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Enjambment
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line a poetry with no stop or pause at the end
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Alll the lines are alll enjambing together, cuzzz there aint no period~ deeen i gut preegneent
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Epiphany
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moment of enlightenment or heightened awareness when an ordinary object or scene is suddenly transformed into something that possesses significance
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Euphony
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Language that is smooth, pleasant, and musical to the ear.
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THE EUPHONIUM IS EUPHONY TO MINE EARS, play on gentleman!!! haarrummphhh
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Explication
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close analysis, examination, and exposition of a text
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PLick the real book, my explication is FAHHH BETTAAA
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Free verse
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poetry that has no pattern of rhyme or meter
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Horatian Satire
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form of satire that is gentle, good humored and sympathetic
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for effect
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Imagery
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language that evokes mental images
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irony (two kinds)
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saying opposite of what is meant (verbal) or a result ending that is opposite of expected (situational)
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irornt you copper? or ITS IRON, I EXPECTED GOLD!
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Juvenalian Satire
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harsh intolerant satire, targeting certain people
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Metaphor
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comparison not using like or as
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Meter
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recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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iamb (B4-AF)
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unstressed stressed
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i amb go-o-o-ing in-in-to kinder-gar-ten
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trochee (ScTSm)
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stressed unstressed
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I GOT A TROCHEE FOR MY GRADuATION
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anapest
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unstressed unstressed stressed
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im chill, im chill, ANA IS A PEST!!!
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dactyl
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stressed unstressed unstressed
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spondee
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stressed stressed
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monometer
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line with one metric foot
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dimeter
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line with two m feet
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trimeter
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line with three m feet
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tetrameter
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line with four m feet
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pentameter
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line with five m feet
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hexameter
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line with six m feet
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metonymy
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substitution of one word to stand for a word that is closely related to.
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Motif
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Recurring theme or pattern
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I HAVE A ICE'd MOTIF EVERY MORNING FOR BREKKERS, IT TIS JUST SO RECURRING!
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Octave
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eight line stanza
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Ode (L S D)
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lyric poem, on a serious subject and written in dignified language
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MY odor is lyrically, seriously and dignifiedly smelly
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onomatopoeia
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word mimics sound
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Oxymoron
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opposing words side by side in paradoxical way
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paradox (aqua)
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contradictory statement that contains some element of truth
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WE NEEd WATER< WATER NEEDS US! THERE IS SOME TARUTH IN THAT MY SON!
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parallelism
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repetition of grammatical form and function
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paraphrase
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restatement of a text giving the meaning in another form for clearness, rewording
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parody
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word that imitates another work for comic affect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of original
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Persona
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voice or figure of the author, which may or may not share values of the actual author
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WHat you LIKE POETRY? your personas in your novels dont even like poetry!
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Personification
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giving human qualities to abstract or non human object
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quatrain
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four line stanza or poem
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refrain
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group of words presented at key intervals in a poem
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Rhyme
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repetition o the same or similar sounds, most often at the ends of lines
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Masculine rhyme
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rhyme of one syllable
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feminine rhyme
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rhyme with two or more syllables
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internal rhyme
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rhyme within a line of poetry
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end rhyme
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rhyme at the end of a line
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Approximate rhyme
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two rhymes have similar sounds but not exact
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Sarcasm
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form of verbal irony that insults a person with insincere praise
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sonnet
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fourteen line poem with specified rhyme scheme
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YO nuMBA IS 14 DANG YOU ORGANIZED GURRRLLLLL
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italian sonnet (petrarch)
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octave and sestet, octave must be abba abba
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GIRL YOH NUMBA AInT 86 gurrrl, abbababbababba
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Shakespearian (english) sonnet
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three quatrains and a couplet abab cdcd efef gg
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simile
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comparison using like or as
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symbol
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physical person place or thing that represents something else
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synecdoche
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substitution of a part to stand for the whole
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synesthesia
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juxtaposition of one sensory image with another image that appeals to an unrelated sense (blue screamed at me from across the room)
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Syn(ce) thesia isnt at school today, i aint got no grippin on my senses! Blue is screamming, urggha
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syntax
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order of words in a sentence, sentence structure
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I synt my tax, but i didnt do it in the right order
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terza rima
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three line stanza where first and third lines rhyme and second line becomes the first and third lines of the next stanza ABA BCB CDC
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Theme
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main idea of a literary work
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imagine this: nothing special world (the newwwwww theme park)
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tone
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attitude created by the authors manipulation of language
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Literature change you tone with me! change the tude~!
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understatement
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statement that says less that what it means. often used to make an ironic point
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