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Auspicious

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Promising well for the future

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Introspection

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The examination of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings

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Status quo

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The existing sate of affairs

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Blazoned

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Depict/proclaim something widely (such as a coat of arms)

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Macabre

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Grim or gruesome

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Interim

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An intervening time or interval; meantime

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Incredulous

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Showing disbelief; unwilling to accept what is offered as true

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Malevolent

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Wanting to cause harm; evil

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Iniquities

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Gross injustice or wickedness; immoral act

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Scruples

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Moral or ethical consoderations

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Animated

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Made somebody or something lively

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Formidable

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Awe-inspiring; frightning

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Supplication

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Appeal made to somebody in authority, such as an earnest prayer

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Indefferent

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Without care or interest

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Entrails

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Internal organs

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Ponderous

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Unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size

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Smithy

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A blacksmith’s shop

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Muster

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Gather people or things together

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Amplify

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Make louder or increase signal

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Paradox

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A statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true

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Periphery

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Boundary or outskirts

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Predicament

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Difficult situation

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Woo

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To seek a person’s love

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Knave

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Cunning, untrustworthy man; usually of humble birth

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Gallant
Courteous, brave; often applied to a man's courtesy to a woman
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Counterfeit
fake
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Beguile
To deceive with charm
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Edict
Ruling or law; authoritative command
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Changeling
Child exchanged for another by fairies
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Tempest
Storm
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Filch
Steal something
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Chide
To scold or reproach
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Discord
Lack of agreement
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Odorous
Having a distinctive smell (Flowers, garbage)
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Soliloquy
A dramatic device where a character speaks to him/herself, relating thoughts and feelings
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Predilection
An established preference or liking for something
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Stealthly
Furtive; trying to avoid being noticed
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Repertoir
Material available for performance
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Teemed
To be full of something; swarmed
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Concesssion
reluctant yielding; something unwillingly admitted
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Vapid
Dull or empty
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Assuaged
Relieved something unpleasent
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Scrutiny
Careful and close examination
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Deem
Consider to be
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Irascible
Quick tempered and showing anger
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Lament
Express sadness
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Gait
Manner of walking
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Mortification
Shame and embarrassment
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Eccentrick
Unconventional; odd
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Pinion
Restrain someone by pinning their arms to their sides
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Edifacation
The instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually
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Summarize
Shorten in your own words
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Quote
"Something someone said"
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Paraphrase
Your own interpretation/definition, could be longer.
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Pronoun
A word that takes the place of a noun.
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Nouns
Person, place, thing, feeling, or idea
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Verb
Action or being, one word or a group.
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Purpose of writing
Entertain, inform, persuade.
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Justice
The quality of being fair and responsible
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Prejudice
Pre-judging a person on an opinion/assumption
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Plagiarism
Taking someone else's work and saying its your own.
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Sender
Your name, where, city, Provence, and postal code
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Date
In between sender and receiver.
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Receiver
Persons name, where they live, city, province, and postal code.
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Creating suspense
To build up suspense, an author often plants clues early in the story that hint at what will come
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Elements of a short story
Plot, character/s, point of view, setting, time, and theme
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Essay steps
Intro: attract reader, thesis, plan of development. 1st paragraph: topic sentence, subtopics, supporting details. 2nd: topic sentence (point 2), subtopics, supporting details. 3rd: topic sentence (point 3), subtopics, supporting details. Concluding: conclusion-final thought, summary-restatement of thesis
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Thesis
States the main idea advanced in the paper.
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MLA
Modern Language Association
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In-text citations
Reference to a book, paper, or author
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Work cited
List of references at the end of an essay or project
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Epic hero
Courage, fatale flaw, honour, smart, strong,
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Story of Odysseus
Went to war, says he doesn't need the gods, takes 10y to get home, epic hero, wants to see his wife(Penelope) in Ithaca.
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Character of Odysseus
Epic hero, smart, leader, from Ithaca, married, proud
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People, monsters, places
Sirens, cat,e of the sun god, Athena, the suitors, Penelope.
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A midsummer nights dream
In Athens, Hermia doesn't want to marry Demetrius, she and Lysander run to the magical forest. Helena tells Demetrius and they go into the forest, Oberon sees and want Demetrius to like Helena, puck puts love just into wrong persons eyes hell goes down.
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Main characters
Demetrius-likes Hermia. Puck-fairy-servant of Oberon. Hermia-likes Lysander Egeus-Hermia's dad Lysander-likes Hermia. Hippolytia-theseus' wife Helena-likes Demetrious Theseus-duke of Athens Oberon-King of fairies. Titania-queen of fairies
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Pyramus and Thisbe
Tragic story of two lovers. Pretty much like Romeo and Juliette
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Iambic Pentameter
certain kind of line of poetry, and has to do with the number of syllables in the line and the emphasis placed on those syllables.
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Format of a sonnet
14 lines, compair love to nature, rhyme, abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
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Characters
Atticus, Jim, scout, boo/aurther, dill, cal, Tom Robinson,
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Mocking bird
They only ever sing for us never do any harm.

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