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LA puritan Vocab
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Literature
11th Grade
10/25/2013

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Antiquated Language
Definition
Old fashioned and out of date
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Imagery
Definition
images created by the writer
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paraphrase
Definition
restatement of a text in different words
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Puritan Plain Style
Definition
a simple style that does not exaggerate anything said
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Direct Address
Definition
addressing someone specifically, uses a comma
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Extended Metaphor
Definition
prolonged use of words in a place of another
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Couplet
Definition
two rhyming lines of poetry, rhyme comes at end
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Stanza
Definition
division of a poem like r's
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Archaic language
Definition
language we don't use that belonged to an earlier time
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Lyric poem
Definition
expressing direct personal emotion
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Lyre
Definition
ancient Greek stringed instrument
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Narrative
Definition
telling a story
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Universality
Definition
relating to or asserting everyone in everything
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fold (suffix)
Definition
times
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Anglicizing words
Definition
borrow words into English
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Omni (prefix)
Definition
all
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context clues
Definition
words in the text that give into on what is happening or explains what was said previously
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