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Final Exam Vocab Flashcards

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Viewing the future with anxiety or alarm

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Apprehensive

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Agitated with doubt or mental conflict

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Distraught

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An infringement or violation of law, command, or duty

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Transgression

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To criticize severely; to rebuke

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Chastise

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Lacking distinctive or interesting qualities

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Nondescript

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To give relief or deliverance to for a time

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Reprieve

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Extremely careful

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Meticulously

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The cognitive process of gaining skill or knowledge

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Acquisition

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A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound

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Crescendo

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Requested something to be furnished

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Requisitioned

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Very intense; agonizing

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Excruciating

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Attracting attention

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Conspicuous

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The moving of items from one place to another

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Conveyance

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Formally requested

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Petitioned

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Great and bloody slaughter(as in battle)

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Carnage

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One that receives and contains something; a container

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Receptacle

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Given legal power or rights

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Empowered

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Secretively; furtively

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Stealthily

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A cluster of leaves,flowers, and branches

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Foliage

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Calling upon in supplication, beseeching; begging for urgently or anxiously

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Imploring

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The authors attitude towards a subject

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Tone

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The point of view, how a person feels about a subject

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Perspective

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A conversation between characters

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Dialogue

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The way a poem is written ex. Free verse, rhyming, etc.

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Poetry style

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Words with the same ending sound ex. Toy, boy

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Rhyming words

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Poetry style that does not follow a particular pattern and usually doesn’t contain rhyme

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Free verse

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A person, place, or thing that suggest a different meaning

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Symbolism

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Grouping of lines in a poem

Paragraph:story::______:poem

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Stanza

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Information read that helps you determine the answer to a question

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Supporting evidence

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Language authors use to describe that is often not taken literally ex: simile, metaphor, personification, etc.

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Figurative language

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Comparison between two things using like or as ex: as light as a feather

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Simile

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Comparison between unlike things without like or as ex: Apple of my eye

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Metaphor

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An animal, object, force of nature, or idea given human traits

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Personification

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Using extreme exaggeration to express an idea ex: the building was a mile high.

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Hyperbole

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An expression that means something different from the literal meaning of the words ex: the lady was hoping she could catch his eye

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Idiom

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Repetition of beginning constant sounds of words ex: dally sells sea shells by the sea shore

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Alliteration

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The sequence of events in a story, play, or poem

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Plot

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Parts of literature that makes up a story ex: symbolism, irony, flashback, etc.

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Literary elements

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An interruption to a story that tells about something that happened earlier in time

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Flashback

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Descriptive language that appeals to our senses

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Imagery

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The emotional feeling of a story

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Mood

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To represent or indicate before hand

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Foreshadowing

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Inconsistency between an actual and a expected result

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Irony

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A conflict only one person deals with

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Internal conflict

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Multiple people are involved in the conflict

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External conflict

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The message found throughout the story (life lesson)

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Theme

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A sentence that states the most important idea form the selection

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Main idea

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Infer what might happen in the next story

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Inference

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A final result or outcome

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Conclusion

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