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(v)to have an intense dislike or hatred for
laothe, abhor, depise, detest |
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(n) the modifacation of the spocail patterns, traits, or strcutures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resulent bend
adaption |
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| (adj) resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or chracter; accidental; not essentail; (medicine) acquired, not congential |
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| (Adj) courteous and pleasent, sociable, easy to speak to |
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| (v) to increase in greatness, or power, or wealth; to build up for intensity' to make appear greater |
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| (v) to improve, make better, corect a flaw or shortcoming |
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| (n) a general pardon for an offense against a government; in gernreal, any act of forgiveness and absolution |
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| (adj) shapeless, without definite form; of no particular character; without organization, unity, or cohesion |
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| (adj) abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual |
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| (n) poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity |
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| (n) the expression of approval or favorable opinion, priase; official approval |
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| (v) to assign or refer to (as a cause or source), attribute |
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(n) a damaging or derogatory statement; the act of slandering or
defaming |
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(v) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to,
appease, satisfy, quench |
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(n) that which surrounds (as an atmosphere); a distinctive air or personal
quality |
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| (n) self-government, political control |
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| (adj) self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule |
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| (adj) extremely strange, very unusual |
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(v) to adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim
widely |
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(adj) pompous or overblown in language; full of high sounding words
intended to conceal lack of ideas |
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| (adj) abrupt, blunt, with no formalities |
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(v)to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing
thoughts or false promises |
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(adj) without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking
sophistication and poise; without feathers |
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| (v) to punish severely, to criticize severely |
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(n) a warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage
behavior |
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| (adj) roundabout, not direct |
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| (n) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose |
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(v) to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of
distress |
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| (n) illegal traffic, smuggled goods; (adj) illegal, prohibited |
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(v) to plan with ingenuity, invent; to bring about as the result of a
scheme or plan |
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(n) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or
decay; excessive self indulgence. |
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(n) a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and
promises in order to gain power |
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| (v) to free from deception or error, to set right in ideas or thinking |
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(n) saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose: foolish, aimless talk or
thinking: nonsense; (v) to let saliva flow from the mouth: to utter nonsense or
childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly |
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| (v) to draw forth, to bring out from some source (such as another person) |
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(v) to direct or order; to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative
way; to prohibit |
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(n) weariness or dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest,
boredom |
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(n) a summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger
reality |
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| (adj) fair, just, embodying principles of justice |
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| (adj) scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic |
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| (v) to urge strongly, advise earnestly |
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| (adj, adv) by virtue of holding a certain office |
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| (v) to make easy; cause to progress faster |
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| (v) to make amends, to make up for; to avert |
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(v) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by
earnest reasoning |
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| (v) to free from entanglement or difficulties; to remove with effort |
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(n) a state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence; (v) to be in or
work into such a state; to produce alcohol by chemical action |
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(n) a chain or shackle placed on the feet (often used in plural); anything
that confines or restrains; (v) to chain or shackle; to render helpless or impotent |
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| (v) to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts |
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| (v) to mock, treat with contempt |
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| (adj) thin, light, delicate, insubstantial; (n) a very thing, light cloth |
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(adj) tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary;
unpredictable |
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| (adj) used so often as to lack freshness or originality |
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| (adj) very wicked, offensive, hateful |
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| (n) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having something missing) |
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| (adj) not subject to change, constant |
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(adj) resulting from or marked by lack of attention; unintentional,
accidental |
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(v) to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of
thought; to hint, suggest, imply |
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| (v) to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds |
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(v) to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by
others (sometimes used in a critical derogatory sense |
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(n) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory
sense) |
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(adj) incapable of being understood; impossible to see through
physically |
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(adj) relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or
isolated in outlook or experience |
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(n) one who rebels or rises against authority; (adj) rising in revolt,
refusing to accept authority; surging or rushing in on |
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(n) one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right
to be; an intruder |
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(adj) belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential,
inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part |
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| (v) to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval |
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| (v) to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval |
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| (adj) incapable of being changed or called back |
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| (adj) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by overindulgence) |
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| (n) a weariness of body or mind, lack of energy |
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(adj) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in
color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint |
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(n) a delusion by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in
excess of reality |
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| (adj) worthy, deserving recognition and praise |
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| (n) a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy |
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(adj) existing in name only, not real; too small to be considered or
taken seriously |
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(adj) not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position or
to say yes or no |
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(adj) mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not
detectable by ordinary means; (v) to hide, conceal; eclipse; (n) matters involving
the supernatural |
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(v) to steal something that has been given into one’s trust; to take
improperly for one’s own use |
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| (v) to spread through, penetrate, soak through |
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| (adj) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset |
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| (n) a rule of conduct or action |
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(v) to fall as moisture; to cause to bring about suddenly; to hurl
down from a great height; to give distinct form to; (adj) characterized by excessive
haste; (n) moisture; the product of an action or process |
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| (n) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence |
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(n) a natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human
character or behavior) |
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(adj) pertaining to an outlying are; local; narrow in mind or outlook,
countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design
that originated in the countryside; (n) a person with a narrow point of view; a person
from an outlying are; a soldier from a province or colony |
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| (adj) peevish, complaining, fretful |
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(v) to argue or plead with someone against something, to protest
against, object to |
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| (v) to disown, reject, or deny the validity of |
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| (adj) able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly |
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| (v) to re-echo, resound; to reflect or be reflected repeatedly |
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| (adj) beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome |
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| (n) composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances |
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| (adj) bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm |
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(v) to whip, punish severely; (n) a cause of affliction or suffering; a
source of severe punishment or criticism |
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| (adj) coarsely abusive, vulgar or low (especially in language), foulmouthed |
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(adj) resistant to lawful authority; having purpose of overthrowing an
established government |
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| (adj) persistent, showing industry or determination |
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| (adj) funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely dismal or gloomy |
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| (v) to make pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of |
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| (n) a position requiring little or no work; an easy job |
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(adj) thin or flimsy in texture; cheap; shoddy of inferior in quality or
character; ethically low, mean, or disreputable |
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(adj) tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy; (n)
something that induces sleep |
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(adj) extremely strict in regard to moral standards or conduct;
prudish, puritanical |
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(adj) strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp
or bitter to taste |
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(v) to think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to
conjecture or guess; (n) likely idea that lacks definite proof |
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(adj) stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation; made or
accomplished by fraud |
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(adj) thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight
importance or significance; lacking a sound basis, poorly supported |
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| (v) to rise above or beyond, exceed |
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| (v) to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law |
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| (v) to change from on nature, substance, or form to another |
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(n) shade cast y trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing
influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion |
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(adj) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an
impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable |
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(adj) not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or
complexity |
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(adj) dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness
or force |
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(adj) performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in
place of another |
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| (adj) bitter, sarcastic; highly caustic or biting (like a strong acid) |
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| (v) to use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end |
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| a narrative in which certain characters, events, or details of setting repsent astract ideas or moral qualitites |
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| a statment delivered by an acot to an audience in such a way that other chracter on stage are presumed to not hear what is said |
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| everyday language, used in domestic tragedy. Not used in classical (Poetic verse). |
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| a moment of revelation or insight in which a character recognizes some truth |
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| clues that suggest event that have yet to occur |
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| atmosphere, the feeling created in the reader by a literary work |
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| a breif story that answers a question or express a moral or truth. an allegory that focuses on one or two chracters and religous related. Outcome seems inevitable |
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| a statment that seems to be contradictory but that acutually presents the truth |
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| the sequence of events in a literary work |
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| the prespective or the vantage point from which the story is told |
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| the presentation in art of details of actual life |
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| literary movement of eighteenth and ninteenth centuries. Empansizes imagination, fancy, freedom, emotion, wildness, the beauty of the untamed world, rights, nobility, and acttractiveness of patoral life. |
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| writting that ridicules or holds up to contempt that faults of individuals or of groups |
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| an author's typical way of writing or verbal expression through word choice |
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| literary movement 19th century. used sound toachieve emotional effects |
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| central idea, concern or purpose of a literary work |
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| the writer's attidute toward the readers and towards the subject |
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| a type of drama that shows the downfall or destruction of a noble or outstading person, traditionally one with harmatia |
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| change from ingnorance to knowledge |
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| psycholigcal perging release from a vicarious experience |
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| 50 men danced and sang. gave advice, expressed opinion and asked questions. |
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| means god of machine and crane that saved chracters. Literary means saving of chracters with no foreshadow or logic |
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| when chracter in narrative is unaware of something the reader knows |
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| a chracter who goes through an important inner change due to the action of the plot |
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| a character who contrasts another character |
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| an error in judgement, flaw, or mistake |
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| a private war within one self |
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| poetic verse intended to be song or chanted |
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| an extended uninteruppted speech by a chracter in a drama |
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| recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the piece’s major themes |
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| suffering, destructive or painful action |
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| reversal, a complete and startling change or twist in the action |
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| half goat half man, scacred animal associated with dionysus |
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| basic irony the unexpected |
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| long speech by performers who is alone on stage who delivers thoughts |
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| know thyself, kown limitations, live in moderation, take middle path |
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| visual performers what you see like actors, masks, and visual effects |
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| capactiy to produce logical and germane (relevant) arguments |
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| not completely wicked misfortune not becuase of wickedness but because of hamartia |
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| when a speakers actionsor tone is different than his implied spoken words like sarcasm |
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| one of the characters in the story tells the story in his or her own words |
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| indirect characterization |
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| what is not told straight like what chracters say about himeself, thoughts comments, what the character does |
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| what is told straight up about character |
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| 3rd person limited omniscient |
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| thougths and feeling of one character |
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| narrtor onl tells you what is seen or heard |
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| thoughts and feelings of all characters |
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| similar to aristitionin tragedy |
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| domsetic life of common people, middle class or lower class bourgeois. |
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| tragedegy from the raining time of elizabeth the first from 1558-1603 |
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| potrays fictional accouts or people and dramatization of historical events and people |
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| revenge tragedy someone is wroged, and somone else corrects the wrong usually are father and son. scary elements involved |
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| serious main plot, comic sub plot, usualy ends with happy marrige. Ending looks bad buy deus ex machina brings the denonment or resolution |
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| (v.) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement |
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