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Life of Pi Quiz
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10th Grade
09/20/2011

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process of interaction between two cultures in which the culture that is dominant modifies the less dominant culture
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acculturation
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branch of philosophy that explores theories and ideas about art and beauty and its appreciation
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aesthetics
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study of human cultures - their creations, institutions, group behaviors, languages, religions, and the like
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anthropology
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rule, influence, control by a noble or privileged class (usually based on ancestry)
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aristocracy
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1. Human effort to imitate, alter, add to, or otherwise represent "nature."
2. The conscious production or arrangement of sound, color, form, movement, language, or other elements in a manner that somehow affects the human sense of beauty
3. The production of beauty in "material" or "plastic" form.
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art
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repetition of an initial word
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anadiplosis
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repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences
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anaphora
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understatement for emphasis (often sarcastic)
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litote
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an idea that is emphasized by the pretense that it is too obvious to discuss
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paralipsis
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part used to represent the whole, or whole used to represent a part, or general to represent the special, or special to represent the general
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synecdoche
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to derive by reasoning
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infer
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to indicate or suggest without explicit statements
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imply
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another associated meaning of a given word
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connotation
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the fixed, agreed-upon meaning of a word
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denotation
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the state or condition of judging something is worthless
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