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Sophomore Vocab Flashcards

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Lack of interest/emotion/excitement

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Apathy

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To do away with

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Abolish

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Charitable

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Benevolent

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To confuse

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Bewilderment

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Joyous/merry/cheerful/carefree

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Blithely

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Deserving of or held in contempt; despicable

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Contemptible

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Mysterious in meaning; puzzling

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Cryptic

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Of delicate beauty: exquisite

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Daintily

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A formal and authoritative order

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Decree

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To lower in dignity/estimation or in character/quality; to reduce to a lower rank, degree, etc.

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Degrade

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A person who is a very enthusiastic follower/fan to something

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Devotee

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A loud, confused noise; to sound/utter with clamor or persistent repetition

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Din

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Disagreeing as in opinion or attitude; someone who differs in opinion/an official policy

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Dissident

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To hesitate/waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; unsteadily/hesitatingly

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Falter

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The space of 14 nights and days; two weeks

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Fortnight

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To raise/lift

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Hoist

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Discreditable; humiliating

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Ignominious

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About to happen; imminent; overhanging

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Impending

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Not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring

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Imperishable

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In expression a the general truth/principle; a principle/rule of conduct

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Maxim

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Quick and light in movement; moving with ease; active; rapid

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Nimble

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Something that’s put forward to conceal a true purpose or object

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Pretext

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Unharmed

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Unscathed

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To invade work,duty, responsibility, etc.; to avoid

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Shirk

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Keen; piercing

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Shrewd

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An officer having charge of the legal business of a city, town, etc.

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Solicitor

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Battle, strike, struggle

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Toil

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Easily managed/controlled

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Tractable

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Insecure

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Treacherous

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The musical interval of a perfect prime

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Unison

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Of or pertaining to worldly things or nonreligious subjects

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Secular

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To appease or pacify, especially by consessions or conciliatory gestures

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Placating

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Stubbornness

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Obstinacy

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The state of being despised; dishonor; disgrace

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Contempt

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Equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification

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Tantamount

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Where final battle will be fought between the forces of good and evil; any great and crucial conflict

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Armageddon

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Feign; to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of

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Dissemble

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Performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another

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Vicarious

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To linger aimlessly, or as if aimless, in or about a place

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Loiter

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Disposed or inclined to revenge

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Vindictive

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Given without receiving any return value; free; voluntary

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Gratuitous

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Not to be appeased

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Implacable

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To measure

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Meted

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Sly; shifty

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Furtive

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To draw or bring out or forward; evoke

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Elicit

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A moving force; impulse; stimulus

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Impetus

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Very strict and moral or religious matters; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Puritans or Puritanism

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Puritanical

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A trick, strategy and, or artifice

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Ruse

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Having a foreign appearance

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Outlandish

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Caused by or showing sincere remorse; penitent; filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement

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Contrite

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Mysterious in meaning; puzzling; secret; ambiguous

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Cryptic

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Lower in station, rank, degree, grade, place, position, etc.

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Inferiority

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A family name

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Surname

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Hindered; restricted

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Encumbered

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Trivial; not important

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Insignificant

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Absolutely; in an unqualified away

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Profoundly

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People who are expelled from a country

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Deportees

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Leaving one area to settle in another

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Emigration

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Written discussion of a topic

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Treatise

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Short, humorous stories

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Anecdotes

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Sadness; depression

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Melancholy

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Restrictions

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Constraint

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Necessary supplies, such as food

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Provisions

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Sealed against the entry or escape of air

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Hermetically

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Likely to cause an epidemic disease

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Pestilential

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Known widely and unfavorably; infamous

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Notorious

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Completely lacking or empty

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Devoid

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An eyeglass for one eye

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Monocle

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Clear understanding

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Lucidity

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Returning to health after an illness

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Convalescent

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Coaxing by flattery

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Blandishments

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A group of vehicles traveling together

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Convoy

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Violent mental agitation or wild excitement

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Frenzy

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To cause physical pain or mental anguish

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Torment

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Beat; hit

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Thrash

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Second of two

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Latter

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Boisterous and disorderly

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Raucous

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Treacherous action to defeat a cause

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Sabotage

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To take something away from

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Deprive

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Expressing sorrow

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Bereaved

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Lack of emotion or feeling

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Apathy

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Ashen; pallid

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Livid

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The least desirable portions

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Dregs

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Vigor; energy

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Vitality

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The limit of one’s resources or endurance

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Tether

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Harmful influence

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Contagion

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Left alone by death

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Plaintive

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Remote, secret places

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Recesses

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Getting power by using unjust treatment

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Oppression

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Lack of experience, wisdom, judgment

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Naiveté

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A feeling of discomfort/weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat

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Hunger

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Stuck in the same place/situation; the loss of the ability to move in part/most of the body

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Paralysis

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Pre-convinced opinion that’s not based on reason or actual experience

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Prejudice

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Author tells us directly what the character is like

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Direct characterization

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Use your judgment to decide what a character is like (their actions, friends, thoughts…)

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Indirect characterization

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Word choice

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Diction

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When the audience knows more than the characters

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Dramatic irony

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A speaker says one thing but mean something different

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Verbal irony

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What actually happens is the opposite of what happens

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Situational irony

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Giving a clue to what will happen

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Foreshadowing

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Main idea or message of the story

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Theme

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Language that appeals to the senses (smell, see, touch, hear, taste)

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Imagery

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Feeling in a work of literature

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Mood

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Person who tells the story

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Narrator

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Knowing everything

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Omniscient point of view

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Restricted

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Limited point of view

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Good guy, main character

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Protagonist

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Beginning of story; background of story

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Exposition

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Problem

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Conflict

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Turning point

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Climax

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Problem solved; or end of story

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Resolution/denouement

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A representation that means something beyond itself

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Symbol

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Hyperbole, metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, etc.

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Figurative language

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Exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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Comparison not using like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparison using like or as

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Simile

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A reference to something else

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Allusion

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Giving an inanimate object/nonhuman human-like qualities/characteristics

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Personification

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