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140 Cards in this Set
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a, an |
without/opposite of |
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ab |
away from |
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ad |
toward |
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amphi,ambi |
both sides/all around |
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anim |
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ante |
before |
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anthro |
man |
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anti |
against |
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aqua |
water |
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archa |
ancient |
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archos |
leader |
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aster |
star |
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aud |
sound |
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auto |
self |
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avi |
bird |
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bene |
well/good |
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bi |
two |
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bib |
book |
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bio |
life |
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card |
heart |
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cent |
hundred |
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chrom |
color |
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chrom |
time |
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cide |
kill |
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circum |
around |
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corpus |
body |
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counter |
against |
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cracy |
rule |
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credo |
belief |
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DEC |
ten |
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demos |
people |
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derm |
skin |
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di |
two |
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dict |
speak |
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dia |
across |
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dis |
not/apart |
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don |
give |
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ego |
self/I |
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ex |
out |
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fact |
make |
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fore |
in front of/earlier |
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fract |
break |
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frater |
brother |
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gen |
birth |
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geo |
earth |
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graph |
write |
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hetero |
mixed/unlike |
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homo |
same/alike |
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in,im |
not |
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inter |
between |
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intra |
within |
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legis |
law |
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less |
without |
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lexis |
word |
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liber |
freedom |
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locus |
place |
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log |
thought |
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luna |
moon |
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macro |
large |
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man |
hand |
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mania |
obsession |
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mar |
ocean |
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mater |
mother |
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meter |
measure |
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micro |
small |
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mid |
half |
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mono |
one |
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mortis |
death |
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neo |
new |
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nomen |
name |
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oct |
eight |
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omni |
every |
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pater |
father |
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path |
feel |
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ped |
foot |
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pent |
five |
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peri |
around |
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philo |
love |
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phon |
sound |
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polis |
city |
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poly |
many |
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port |
carry |
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post |
after |
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pre |
before |
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pro |
in favor of |
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psyche |
mind |
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quad |
four |
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quint |
five |
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scope |
examne |
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scrib |
write |
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sept |
seven |
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solus |
alone |
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subter |
under |
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syn |
togetehr |
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tele |
distance |
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ter |
earth |
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trans |
across |
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tri |
three |
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uni |
one |
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vac |
empty |
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third person limited |
the narrator usually focus all their attention to one character; sees what happens with all other characters but only knows ones thoughts and feelings |
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foreshadowing |
hinting about what is gong to happen later on in a story |
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logical fallacy |
weakness or flaw in an argument |
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equivocation |
when someone purposely slides between two meanings of a word to confuse audience |
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thesis |
statement in the introduction, its what you will be proving in the rest of your essay; argument |
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direct quote |
using someone else's exact words in your writing, must be iced |
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attributive tag |
a short phrase that introduces someones quote or idea |
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citation |
when someone else's work is mentioned; it needs a citation, you site the source |
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implicit |
implied but not dirrectly stated |
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explicit |
directly stated |
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dramatic irony |
audience knows more about what is happening than characters in story |
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situational irony |
when the exact opposite of what is supposed to happen happens; a fire extinguisher is on fire |
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satire |
the use of irony or sarcasm to imitate something |
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hyperbole |
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
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adjective |
modifies noun |
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adverb |
modifies verb |
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preposition |
shows relationship between things |
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pronoun |
replaces noun or phrase |
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predicate |
part of sentence that contains main verb |
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dependent clause |
has both subject and verb cannot stand by itself as a sentence |
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independent clause |
has subject and verb and can stand by itself as a sentence |
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adjective clase |
who, whom, whose, which, that, when , where , why |
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adverb clause |
until, once, because, answers how, when, or why |
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prepositional phrase |
under, over, around,behind,through |
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participial phrase |
describes the state of the sentence; stuffed from eating cake, julia took a shower |
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appositive phrase |
acts to the noun; julia, the blonde, ate cake. |
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fragment |
incomplete sentence |
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parallel structure |
using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. |
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sonnet |
14 line poem, rhymes |
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haiku |
a short poem that captures a single moment |
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elegy |
a poem about greif or death |
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epic |
a long narrative poem about heroic deeds |
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ballad |
a poem that tells a story |
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meter |
the rhythm of language |
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couplet |
two lines of poetry in a row that go together |
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alliteration |
a poetic or literary device used by using words with the same first letter; Julia Jammed Jigalou Jellies into her Jumping John |
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Ambiguity |
when something can be understood in more than one way and its not clear which way is correct |
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allegory |
a work of art that has a second hidden meaning |
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allusion |
when a work of art makes a indirect reference to something the author hopes the audence to know |
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phrase |
i need to look that up |
