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Ambivalent

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Having 2 or more emotions
Conflicted emotions
Don’t know weather to go to football game or do homework

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Equivocate

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Hedging

To go back and forth between two ideas

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Ambiguous

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2 or more meanings, unclear

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Nihilism

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Don’t believe in morality
Rejections of all distinctions and moral values
n. a nihilist

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Nepotism

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Favoring people who are related to you

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Narcissism

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Being in love with yourself

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Ostensibly

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Seemingly

How something appears to be

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Prosaic

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Ordinary, dull

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Symbol(ism)

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An object that stands for something beyond itself

An idea or emotion

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Metaphor

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A connection between two things where you see one thing in terms of the other thing

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Similie

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An explicit comparison of disparate things

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Disparate

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Totally different but not necessarily opposites (Bryar’s head is a cue ball,… They aren’t opposites but they are completely different)

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Motif

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A recurrent thematic element (representing a theme)

Unlike theme it can occur across an authors works. The author always talks about dogs.

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Explicit

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Fully & clearly expressed

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Implicit

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Meaning is implied and not direct

The meaning is kind of insinuated

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Denotation

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What something means (actual)

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Connotation

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What feelings a word brings, what baggage it brings for you personally or society

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Juxtapose

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To put two things side by side to show something meaningful

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Conflate

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To confuse one thing for another

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Capitalism

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Economic system where markets are king

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Paradox

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2 simultaneously true things that are contradictory

e.g. (“If you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love” Mother Theresea)

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Nuance(s)

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Variation or a detail

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Evunkular

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  • Like your benevolent uncle

- a friendly guy who seems harmless is evunkular

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Theme

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A unifying idea developed in a work of art

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Inherently

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An essential element—part of somethings nature

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Delineate

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  • to make obvious
  • taking the time to explain something to someone
  • to sketch out or depict how something needs to happen or what needs to be done
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Imbued

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Saturated

The text is imbued with meaning

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Lucid

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  • Clear

- Easy to understand

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Pellucid

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Emitting the maximum amount of light

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Esoterical

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Understood by only a small group of people

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Secular

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Not having to do with religion

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Subsequent

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  • as a result of
  • coming later on in an order, but kind of a cause and effect thing as well

We had a great soccer practice yesterday. Subsequently we are going to win today.

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Vernacular

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  • Common, ordinary (vs. the formal)

- the common speech v. The formal

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Bohemian

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  • Living an artistic life style

- someone who is against social norms

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Perfunctory

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  • Doing something without really caring how it ends up
  • half-assed
  • usually brief, quick
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Vehement

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Insistent about something
Passionate
Showing strong feeling

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Cadence

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Balanced
Rhythmic flow
Beat

Mountain bikers are less cadence than road bikers.

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Soporific

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  • Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

- the thing that you are describing is what is soporific

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Recurring

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Not reoccurring

Happening again and again

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Aesthetic

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Adj. Given principles that give something beauty and taste
Noun. Anyones guiding sense of principles regarding beauty and taste
Guiding principles of beauty and taste
Aesthetically pleasing- its aesthetically pleasing to have lights in the parking lot

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Propitious

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  • Something that indicates favorable circumstances
  • Presenting favorable circumstances
  • Anything that promises things are going to be good in the future
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Allegory

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  • A longer metaphor
  • Comparing an entire story to another story
    • or one sequence of events to another
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David & Galiath

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  • David is champion of philistines
  • volunteers to fight Goliath
  • David goes with five rocks and a slingshot
  • he wins because God is on his side
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Cain & Abel

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  • brothers, sons of Adam and Eve
  • giving sacrifices to God
  • God accepted Abel’s didn’t accept Cain’s
  • So Cain killed Abel because of jealosy
  • when God came to Cain he replied am I your brothers keeper?
  • first murder
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Job

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  • test of faithfulness to God
  • one of the most faithful of Gods followers
  • Satan says Job wouldn’t really be faithful to you if his life was hard
  • God gives Satan permission to test Job
  • Job resists temptation for a long time all of his sons died
  • Job eventually gives in and curses the day he was born
  • It turns out okay, God says its okay

> usually mentioned when talking about patience

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Lazarus

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  • Jesus rose Lazarus from the dead

- when someone is referred to as Lazarus, they are revived

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Lot’s Wife

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  • angels show up to sotem, town of evil doers
  • God wipes out evil doers
  • angels wake up Lot and run away
  • Lots wife looks back, she was told not to
  • she turns into salt pillar
  • metaphor for not looking back
  • AKA don’t long for your old way of life
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Recurring

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Not reoccurring

Happening again and again

48
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Aesthetic

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Adj. Given principles that give something beauty and taste
Noun. Anyones guiding sense of principles regarding beauty and taste
Guiding principles of beauty and taste
Aesthetically pleasing- its aesthetically pleasing to have lights in the parking lot

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Propitious

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  • Something that indicates favorable circumstances
  • Presenting favorable circumstances
  • Anything that promises things are going to be good in the future
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Allegory

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  • A longer metaphor
  • Comparing an entire story to another story
    • or one sequence of events to another
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David & Goliath

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  • Goliath is champion of philistines
  • David volunteers to fight Goliath
  • David goes with five rocks and a slingshot
  • he wins because God is on his side
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Cain & Abel

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  • brothers, sons of Adam and Eve
  • giving sacrifices to God
  • God accepted Abel’s didn’t accept Cain’s
  • So Cain killed Abel because of jealosy
  • when God came to Cain he replied am I your brothers keeper?
  • first murder
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Job

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  • test of faithfulness to God
  • one of the most faithful of Gods followers
  • Satan says Job wouldn’t really be faithful to you if his life was hard
  • God gives Satan permission to test Job
  • Job resists temptation for a long time all of his sons died
  • Job eventually gives in and curses the day he was born
  • It turns out okay, God says its okay

> usually mentioned when talking about patience

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Zeugma

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a word or phrase that is understood to modify 2(or more) words or phrases, BUT they must be understood differently by the reader.

  • I hit abby and the lights.
  • The farmers grew potatoes, corn, and bored
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Reticent

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  • holding back
  • more because of uncertainty rather than reluctance because reluctant usually has something negative affiliated with it.
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Euphony

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Pleasant sounds

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Cacophony

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Harsh sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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  • sounds like what it means
  • hiss, snap, bang, laser
  • you basically say the word to define it
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Rhythm

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  • Actual sounds

- flow of the actual words

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Meter

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  • The design of what types of sounds will be employed
  • iambic
  • anapestic
  • spondee
  • trochee
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Iambic Pantameter

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Five iambs -/-/-/-/-/

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Anapestic

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  • three syllables with accent on the third

- “if you go to the woods and you seek a gar-age”

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Spondee

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-two syllables, equal

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Trochee

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  • two syllables emphasis on the first

- stop it!

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Phonetic Intensives

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  • a group of words whose sounds somehow connect to the meaning
  • similar to onomatopoeia but do not always refer explicitly to sounds
  • words of light
    - flame flicker flash
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Alliteration

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  • Repetition of beginning constant sounds
  • rhyme or reason
  • safe and sound
  • tried and true
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Assonance

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  • repetition of vowel sounds
  • mad as a hatter
  • free and easy
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Consonance

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  • repetition of final consonant sounds
  • short and sweet
  • odds and ends
  • first to last
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Rhyme

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-repetition of accented vowel sounds and succeeding consonant sounds

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Enjambment

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-when a line doesn’t end in punctuation but rather continues on to the next line

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Personification

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-giving non-human things human-like qualities

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Apostrophe

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-addressing someone dead, or absent, or non-human as if he/she/it were there and listening

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Metonomy

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  • using something closely related to the thing for the thing

- “the White house said today…”

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Synecdochy

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  • using a part for the whole

- referring to people by a particular body part for example head count, eyeballs

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Imagery

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-when words paint a picture and engage the senses

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Auditory Imagery

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Involving sound

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Olfactory Imagery

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Smell

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Gustatory Imagery

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Taste

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Tactile Imagery

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Touch

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Kinesthetic Imagery

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Muscle movement

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Verse vs. Free-verse

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Verse: has meter

Free-verse: non-metrical poetry
No fixed form
Prose poems

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Philistines

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-people who are full of themselves

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Rhyme Scheme

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-Set pattern of rhymes at the end of lines

84
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Elizabethan Sonnet

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  • three quatrains and a couplet
    • ababcdcdefefgg
  • iambic pantameter
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Petrarchan Sonnet

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  • division of thought between octet and sestet
  • abba abba cdcdcd
  • abba abba cdecde
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Four horsemen

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  • Represents the coming of the apocalypse

- Death, plague, famine, war

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