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| General pardon for an offense against a government, in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution |
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| sel-government, political control |
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| self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule |
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| To adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously |
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| A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior |
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| fair, just, embodying principles of justice |
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| to free from entaglements or difficulties; to remove with effort |
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| to steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts |
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| to mock, treat with contempt |
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| tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary |
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| a rule of conduct or action |
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| beneficial, helpful; healthful, wholesome |
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| bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm |
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| funereal, typical of the tomb |
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| Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct |
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| lasting only a short time |
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| Not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity |
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| Dull, uninteresting, tiresome |
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repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words
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| person or thing working against the protagonist, or hero, in a story |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary. |
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| a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea |
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| a short speech or phrase delivered by an actor/actress in a play, expressing the character's thoughts |
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| reptition of vowel sounds. Although it is similar to alliteration, consonance is not limited to the 1st letters of words |
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| the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. |
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| method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities |
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| literature in which human errors or problems appear funny |
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| problem that starts the chain of events in a story |
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| an implied meaning of a word |
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| is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, as in assonance. |
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| Pair of lines of the same length that usually rhyme |
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| conversation between two or more persons |
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| irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
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| s the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning. Opposite of connotation |
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| a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site |
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| speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech |
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| 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 |
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| action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding. |
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| hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature |
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| excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. |
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| is exaggeration or overstatement. |
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| language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. |
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| an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant |
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| comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as as in a simile. |
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| is the emotional attitude the author takes towards hir subject |
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| A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work |
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| is a word that imitates the sound it represents |
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| putting two contradictory words together |
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| reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory |
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| giving human qualities to animals or objects |
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| struggle found in fiction |
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| the leading character, hero |
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| humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound |
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| rhymed words at the ends of lines |
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| determining Time and Place in fiction |
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| comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
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| an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
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| an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present |
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| pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition |
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| an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning |
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| general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express |
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| attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective |
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| device is used to understate the obvious |
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| a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
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