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accredit

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to authorize; to certify; to believe

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apotheosis

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making a god of something; deification

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atheist

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a person that believes that there is no god

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credence

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belief; acceptance as truth

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creditable

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deserving praise

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credulous

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believing too easy; gullible

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creed

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a statement of belief or principle

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deify

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to make a god of

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deity

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god or goddess

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divine

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to foretell by supernatural means

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divinity

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a god or goddess; a divine being

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pantheism

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identifying god with nature; belief in all gods

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pantheon

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all the gods of a people or religion

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theocracy

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government by divine powers or preists

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theology

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study of religion

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consecrate

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to make or declare something sacred

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execrate

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to denounce as vile or evil; to curse; to detest

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expiate

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to make amends for; to atone for

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hierarchy

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a group organized by rank

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hieroglyphic

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written with pictures to represent sounds or meanings of world

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impious

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sacrilegious; profane; lacking appropriate reverence or respect

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piety

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religious devotion; great respect toward something,especially parents

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pittance

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a meager portion of anything, especially an allowance or salary

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sacrament

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something considered to have sacred significance

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sacrilege

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disrespect to something regarded as sacred

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sacrosanct

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sacred (often usd ironically)

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sanctimonious

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pretending to be righteous

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sanction

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approval; support; permission

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sanctity

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godliness; holiness

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sanctuary

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a sacred place; any place of refuge

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agnostic

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a person who believes nothing can be known about the existence of a god

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amnesty

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a general pardon for offenders, especially for political offenses

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arraign

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to call to court to answer charges

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criterion

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a standard, rule, or test on which a decision or judgement can be made

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dogma

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a system of doctrines put forward by an authority, especially a church, to be absolute truth

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dogmatic

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pretaining to dogma

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frenetic

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frantic; frenzied

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heterodox

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not in agreement with accepted beliefs; holding unorthodoz opinions

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hypocrisy

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pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have

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mnemonic

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relating to or assisting the memory

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physiognomy

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the art of judging a human character by facial features; facial features when regarded as revealing character

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prognosis

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a prediction of the outcome of a disease; any forecast or prediction

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rationale

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the reasons underlying something, often presented as a statement

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rationalize

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to provide a rational basis for something, often by false or self-serving reasoning

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schizophrenia

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a severe mental disorder in which a person becomes unable to to act or reason in a rational way, often with delusions and withdrawal from relationship

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cognition

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the act of perceiving or knowing

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cognizant

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aware; having knowledge of something

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compute

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to determine by mathematics

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connoisseur

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an expert or very discriminating person, especially in matters of art and taste

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conscientious

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guided by one’s sense of right and wrong

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impute

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to attribute or ascribe a quality, especially a fault, to a person

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notorious

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widely and unfavorably known; infamous

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plebiscite

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a direct vote of all the people of a country or district on an important matter; a referendum

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presage

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a sign or feeling concerning some future event; omen; foreboding

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prescience

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knowledge of events before they occur; foresight; foreknowledge

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putative

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supposed; reputed

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repute

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to assign a reputationto (usually used with to be)

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sage

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a person, usually elderly, who is honored for wisdom and experience

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sapient

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wise; insightful (often used ironically)

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acronym

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a word composed of the forst three letters or parts of a name or series of words

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alliteration

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the occurrence of the same initial sound in several words in succession

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ascribe

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to attribute to a particular cause, source or origin

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circumscribe

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to draw a line around; to encircle

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conscription

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a military draft

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ignominious

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shameful; disgraceful

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literal

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in accordance qith the explicit of primary meaning of a word or phrase, not its metaphorical meaning

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literate

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able to read and write

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nomenclature

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a system of naming, especially in the arts and sciences

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obliterate

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to do away with completely; to wipe out; erase

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onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense; a word that sounds like the thing it names

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proscribe

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to denoiunce or condemn

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pseudonym

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a fictious name

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subscribe

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to pledge to pay for something or to contribute to something; to play an order by signing

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transcribe

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to make a copy of; to write out fully

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analogy

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a comparison between things that are alike in some ways

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apologist

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a person who makes an argument in support of someone or something

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choreography

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the art of creating dances

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eclectic

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consisting of parts selcted from various sources

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epigram

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a short, witty saying

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epigraph

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an inscription on a monument or building, on a coin, or at the beginning of a book or chapter

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epilogue

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short concluding section in a literary work

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eulogy

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a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially honoring the dead

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graffiti

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words or drawings scratched or scribbled on a wall

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graphic

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relating to visual arts like drawing, painting, lettering or engraving

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lexicon

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a specialized dictionary

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lithograph

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a print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface is treated so that ink will adhere only to the design to be printed

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logistics

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the organization of supplies and services

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logo

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a symbol or design that serves to identify an organization or institution

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topography

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the features of an area, such as its rivers, mountains, and roads

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allegory

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An extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning.

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allusion

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A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement

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ambiguity

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word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is said to be ambiguous

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anaphora

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The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

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anthropomorphism

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A form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept

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antithesis

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Contrasting or combining two terms, phrases, or clauses with opposite meanings

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apostrophe

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An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.

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archetype

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A basic model from which copies are made

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assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

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cacophony

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Harsh or discordant word sounds

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consonance

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A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme

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dissonance

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A disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms. Like cacophony, it refers to a harsh collection of sounds; dissonance is usually intentional, however, and depends more on the organization of sound for a jarring effect, rather than on the unpleasantness of individual words

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enjambment

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The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation

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hyperbole

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A figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration

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irony

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As a literary device, irony implies a distance between what is said and what is meant. Based on the context, the reader is able to see the implied meaning in spite of the contradiction.

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litotes

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A deliberate understatement for effect

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metaphor

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A comparison that is made directly or less directly but in any case without pointing out a similarity by using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than.

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motif

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A central or recurring image or action in a literary work that is shared by other works and may serve an overall theme

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neologism

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A newly coined word

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pastiche

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A patchwork of lines or passages from another writer (or writers), intended as a kind of imitation

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poetic diction

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The vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage deemed appropriate to verse as well as the deviations allowable for effect within it

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poetic license

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A poet’s departure from the rules of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary in order to maintain a metrical or rhyme scheme

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synesthesia

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A blending or intermingling of different senses in description

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oxymoron

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A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.”

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parody

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A comic imitation of another author’s work or characteristic style

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persona

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A dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem

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personification

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A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.

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prosody

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The principles of metrical structure in poetry.

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tone

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The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader. Often described as a “mood” that pervades the experience of reading the poem, it is created by the poem’s vocabulary, metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and rhyme.

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paradox

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As a figure of speech, it is a seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth

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pun

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Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time

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simile

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A comparison made with “as,” “like,” or “than.

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symbol

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Something in the world of the senses, including an action, that reveals or is a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly

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synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole

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tautology

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A statement redundant in itself, such as “free gift” or “The stars, O astral bodies!” Also, a statement that is necessarily true—a circular argument—such as “she is alive because she is living.”

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sagacious

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shrewd; having good justice; preceptive

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