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45 Cards in this Set
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mulatto
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A child of one Blck person and one White person
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objective
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Not influenced byemotion or personal opinion
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subjective
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Based on personal feelings or prejudice
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segregation
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Separation of enthnic groups in housing, schooling, or other areas of life
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integration
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Inclusion of people all ethnic groups without restriction
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interracial
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Between different races
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discrimination
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the act of predjudice or bias against a group
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civil disobedience
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Deliberate refusal to obey laws as a nonviolent protest
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appeal
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To transfer or apply to transfer (a case) to a higher court for a hearing
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myriad
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Amounting to a vast infinate number
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doctrine
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A principle or body of principles of presented for acceptance or belief; dogma
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jurisdiction
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The right and power to interpret and apply law
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institutionalize
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To make part of a structured and usually well-established system
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charisma
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A rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm
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status quo
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The existing condition or state of affairs
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heckle
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To harass or bother (somebody)with questions or annoying remarks
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inherent
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Being part of the basic nature of a person or thing
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scrutiny
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A close carful examination or study
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deferred
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Postonrd or delayed
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defiance
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The acto of openly opposing someone or something
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incognito
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With one's identity hidden or disguised
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rhetoric
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The act of the effective and persuasive use of language
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denomination
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An organized religous group with a common faith name
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prevalent
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Widely existing or commonly occurring
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remorse
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Deep moral anguish and regret for past misdeeds
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discreet
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With caution or self-control in one's speech or behavior, prudent
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restraint
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Control of feelings
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retribution
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Something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment
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rhyme
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Repetiton of the final stressed and uunstressed syllables in poetry
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rhythm
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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
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metaphor
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A figur of speech that states that one thing "is" something else but in a literal sense is not
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simile
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A figure of speech in which unlike things are compared usually using "like" or "as"
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paraphrase
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A restatemnt of the content of a poem (or other text)designed to make its "prose meaning" clear
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meter
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the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry
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theme
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The central idea of a literay work
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alliteration
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The repetion of sounds of initial or stressed syllables often used to reinforce meaning
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allusion
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A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in a literary work
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irony
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A situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy
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assonance
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the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words
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consonance
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the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or importnat words
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onompotopoeia
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the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound
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bathos
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a description that can move us to laughter instead of tears
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paradox
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an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true
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hyperbole
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an exaggeration or overstatement in the service of truth
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explication
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a written explanation in great detail of a poem
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