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20 Cards in this Set
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apathy |
a lack of interest or emotion
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bludgeon |
to strike with a club |
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cursory |
performed quickly with little attention to detail |
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eloquent |
clear, expressive, and moving speech |
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forlorn |
wretched, hopeless, and pitiful |
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innumerable |
too numerous to be counted |
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murky |
dark and gloomy; cloudy; unclear |
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ordeal |
a painful or difficult experience |
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scrupulous |
extremely attentive to detail; meticulous |
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ultimatum |
a final demand or threat |
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narrator |
the person telling the story |
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onomatopoeia |
using words that imitate the sound they denote |
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oxymoron |
conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') |
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paradox |
a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
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parallelism |
phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other |
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pastiche |
a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work |
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patriarchal |
relating to a society in which men hold the greatest legal and moral authority |
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perfect rhyme |
rhymes involving sound that are exactly the same (ex: love, dove) |
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plot |
the sequence of eventts in a story |
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point of view |
the perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient) |
