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Middle Eastern Literature JJG LH 4
Vocabulary List 5
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10th Grade
04/04/2011

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ELEGY
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a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
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FIGURES OF SPEECH
Definition
any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope
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ANTITHESIS
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the direct opposite (usually followed by of or to ): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly
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KORAN
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the sacred text of islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of god, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
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SERMON
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a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
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A FRAME STORY
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a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story
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MORAL
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of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical
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INVOKING
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to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for
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PRODIGIOUS
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extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc
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INVERTED
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to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship.
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ADJURED
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to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty
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RESOLUTELY
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characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions
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PERFIDIOUS
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deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful
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