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| someone who lives for pleasure or happiness |
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| One who pretends to a life or belief that he doesn't honestly have; a fake |
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| One who differs from accepted belief or theory |
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| a quack or fraud, a cheat,impostor |
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| One who stubbornly holds to his own opinion |
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| A rebel,one who rises up in revolt |
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| fanatic, someone who is devoted beyond reason to cause or belief |
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| To intimidate, to dismay, |
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| deserted, without,inhabitants,barren |
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| Intense dislike;to treat with scorn or contempt |
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| to send away with prompt or speed |
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| A person who understands a lot about food and drink, a connoisseur |
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| To attempt to lie, to mislead, or to tell the truth |
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| Device used to produce figurative language |
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| the term used to describe traditions for each genre |
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| Major category for which, a literary work fits |
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| Usually means "sermon" but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice |
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| Use of language to appeal to senses |
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| A reasonable conclusion drawn from the information presented |
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| An emotionally violent, verbal, denunciation or attack using strong , abusive language |
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| contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant |
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| A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause)comes first,followed by a dependent phrase |
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| An argument appealing to ones prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than intellect or reason |
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| extended metaphor told as a complete narrative with characters, settings, and symbols |
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| repetition of a constant sound |
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| Reference to a person, historical event or literary piece |
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| unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning |
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| Similarity or Compatibility |
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| The word or words that a pronoun stands for |
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| A terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation |
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| Rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audiences a whole to address a single person or thing |
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| Dominant mood or emotional tone of a work of art as a play or novel |
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| Giving human characteristics to concepts, Animals, or Inanimate objects |
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| Perspective from which literature is told |
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| An adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb |
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| a second type of subject compliment a noun,a group of nouns or noun clause that renames the subject |
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| a division of genre referring to fiction and nonfiction in all its forms |
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| Duplication of any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern |
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| Describes the principle governing the art of writing effectively eloquently and persuasively |
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| Term describing the variety, conventions, and purpose of the major kinds of writing |
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| Involves bitter language that is meant to hurt or ridicule. When well done, sarcasm can be witty and insightful; when properly done , simply cruel |
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| work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule |
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| figure of speech using implied comparisons of seemingly unlike things or substitution of one or the other |
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| Figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it |
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| Telling of a study or account of an event or series of events |
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| a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. |
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| Figure of speech where in the author groups apparently contradict terms to suggest a paradox |
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| Statement that appears to be self contradiction or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity |
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| grammatical or rhetorical framing or words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity |
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| Work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim or comic effect or ridicule |
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| An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish |
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| feeling or showing little emotion |
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| Worn-out through overuse; trite |
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| Long established; deep-rooted, habitual |
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| of chief concern or importance |
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| Having, great depth or seriousness |
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| Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive |
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| going off in a side direction |
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| To free from blame or guilt |
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| Short-Lived, as in an image |
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| Treating facts uninfluenced by emotion |
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| Seemingly valid or acceptable, credible |
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| having little substance or strength, unsure, weak |
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| describing a showy or pretentious desplay |
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| Made up of a variety if sources or style |
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| Having to do with the appreciation of beauty |
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| Hateful, marked by deep-seated ill will |
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| Run of the mill; average, ordinary |
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| Wholesome, Innocent, Angelic |
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| to voice disapproval, to scold |
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| to cause one to become confused |
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| Relating to a physical, material body, tangible, and palable |
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| believing on slight evidence, gullible |
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| Group of words that contain a verb and subject |
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| A word, phrase, or expression used in everyday language |
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| A poetic device using elaborate comparison |
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| An associated or additional meaning that a word,image, or phrase may contain |
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| A literary, dictionary, meaning of a word |
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| Word choice or vocabulary |
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| A form of literature that sets out to instruct |
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| Substitute of a mild and pleasant expression for a blunt or harsh one |
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| Long Metaphor that is used throughout a piece of literature |
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| A lament or sadly meditative poem, often written on the occasion of death |
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| branch of linguistics that study the meanings of words,their history and psychological development, connotation, and relationship to one another |
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| evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language,and literary device |
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| Clause containing a subject and verb but it cannot stand alone. It does not express a complete thought |
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| Deductive system of formal logic the present two premises |
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| Anything that represents itself and something else |
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| The way and author chooses to join words into phrases,clauses, and sentences. Different from diction because its groups of words |
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| In writing sentences or groups of sentences that directly express the authors opinion,purpose, meaning, or position |
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| Central idea or message of a work,insight, it offers into life |
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| Authors attitude toward his material,audience,or both |
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| word or phrase that links different ideas |
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| To recognize, to understand between differences |
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| preparing for the main event introductory |
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| something that reliefs the effects of poison |
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| to make greater to supplement |
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| Something that soothes or reliefs |
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| To deceive,Mislead,persuade with charm |
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