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30 Cards in this Set
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Mew |
to confine, conceal |
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Pantaloon |
as |
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Pun |
use of words or phrases to exploit ambiguities and innuendoes in their meaning, usually for humorous effect; a play on words |
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Dissemble |
to hide under a false appearance, to deceive |
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Flout |
to laugh at with contempt and derision |
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Ameliorate |
to make better |
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Ubiquitous |
being present everywhere at once |
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Obeisance |
an act, usually physical, showing dutiful obedience |
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Stock character |
cliche |
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Abject |
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched; contemptible |
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Dulcet |
pleasing to the ear |
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Farce |
Lighthearted comedy that centers around a ridiculous plot that usually involves exaggerated and improbable events |
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Apoplectic |
So filled with rage, a person can barely communicate |
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Concise |
expressing much in few words; short and to the point |
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Coerce |
to cause to do thru pressure or necessity, by physical, moral, or intellectual means |
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Metonymy |
and |
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Maudlin |
effusively or insincerely |
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Synecdoche |
A literary device that uses a part of something to refer to the whole or vice versa (ie. The White House; Her hand in marriage; All hands on deck) |
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Pedantic |
marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects |
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Acrid |
strong and sharp (of a smell); harsh or corrosive in tone |
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Evanescent |
fleeting or temporary |
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Panoply |
a complete or impressive collection of things; a splendid display |
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Obliquely |
done in a roundabout way rather than directly |
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Adamant |
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests a, reason; very hard stone that is unbreakable |
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Metaphysical |
describes works that deal with more abstract questions about the reality beyond what we perceive with our senses |
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Conceit |
develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but its, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative |
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Iambic Pentameter |
a meter in which there are five feet (iambs) of two syllables each that are unstressed/stressed |
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Heroic Couplets |
a set of two lines in iambic pentameter, sealed by an end rhyme (the last stressed syllable), usually found in an epic, hence the name |
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Petrarchan/Italian sonnet |
Two stanzas: One octave (8) and one sestet (6)b. Iambic pentameterc. Rhyme scheme: abba, abba, cdecde/cdcdcd |
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Shakespearean/English Sonnet |
Four stanzas: Three quatrains (4) and one couplet |
