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Auspicious

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Promising well for the future

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Introspection

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The examination of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings

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Status quo

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The existing sate of affairs

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Blazoned

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Depict/proclaim something widely (such as a coat of arms)

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Macabre

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Grim or gruesome

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Interim

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An intervening time or interval; meantime

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Incredulous

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Showing disbelief; unwilling to accept what is offered as true

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Malevolent

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Wanting to cause harm; evil

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Iniquities

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Gross injustice or wickedness; immoral act

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Scruples

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Moral or ethical consoderations

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Animated

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Made somebody or something lively

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Formidable

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Awe-inspiring; frightning

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Supplication

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Appeal made to somebody in authority, such as an earnest prayer

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Indefferent

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Without care or interest

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Entrails

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Internal organs

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Ponderous

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Unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size

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Smithy

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A blacksmith’s shop

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Muster

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Gather people or things together

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Amplify

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Make louder or increase signal

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Paradox

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A statement that apparently contradicts itself and yet might be true

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Periphery

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Boundary or outskirts

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Predicament

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Difficult situation

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Woo

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To seek a person’s love

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Knave

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Cunning, untrustworthy man; usually of humble birth

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Gallant

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Courteous, brave; often applied to a man’s courtesy to a woman

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Counterfeit

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fake

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Beguile

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To deceive with charm

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Edict

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Ruling or law; authoritative command

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Changeling

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Child exchanged for another by fairies

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Tempest

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Storm

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Filch

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Steal something

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Chide

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To scold or reproach

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Discord

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Lack of agreement

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Odorous

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Having a distinctive smell (Flowers, garbage)

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Soliloquy

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A dramatic device where a character speaks to him/herself, relating thoughts and feelings

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Predilection

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An established preference or liking for something

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Stealthly

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Furtive; trying to avoid being noticed

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Repertoir

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Material available for performance

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Teemed

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To be full of something; swarmed

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Concesssion

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reluctant yielding; something unwillingly admitted

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Vapid

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Dull or empty

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Assuaged

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Relieved something unpleasent

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Scrutiny

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Careful and close examination

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Deem

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Consider to be

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Irascible

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Quick tempered and showing anger

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Lament

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Express sadness

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Gait

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Manner of walking

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Mortification

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Shame and embarrassment

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Eccentrick

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Unconventional; odd

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Pinion

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Restrain someone by pinning their arms to their sides

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Edifacation

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The instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually

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Summarize

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Shorten in your own words

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Quote

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“Something someone said”

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Paraphrase

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Your own interpretation/definition, could be longer.

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Pronoun

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A word that takes the place of a noun.

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Nouns

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Person, place, thing, feeling, or idea

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Verb

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Action or being, one word or a group.

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Purpose of writing

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Entertain, inform, persuade.

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Justice

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The quality of being fair and responsible

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Prejudice

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Pre-judging a person on an opinion/assumption

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Plagiarism

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Taking someone else’s work and saying its your own.

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Sender

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Your name, where, city, Provence, and postal code

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Date

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In between sender and receiver.

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Receiver

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Persons name, where they live, city, province, and postal code.

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Creating suspense

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To build up suspense, an author often plants clues early in the story that hint at what will come

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Elements of a short story

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Plot, character/s, point of view, setting, time, and theme

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Essay steps

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Intro: attract reader, thesis, plan of development.
1st paragraph: topic sentence, subtopics, supporting details.
2nd: topic sentence (point 2), subtopics, supporting details.
3rd: topic sentence (point 3), subtopics, supporting details.
Concluding: conclusion-final thought, summary-restatement of thesis

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Thesis

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States the main idea advanced in the paper.

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MLA

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Modern Language Association

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In-text citations

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Reference to a book, paper, or author

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Work cited

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List of references at the end of an essay or project

72
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Epic hero

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Courage, fatale flaw, honour, smart, strong,

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Story of Odysseus

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Went to war, says he doesn’t need the gods, takes 10y to get home, epic hero, wants to see his wife(Penelope) in Ithaca.

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Character of Odysseus

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Epic hero, smart, leader, from Ithaca, married, proud

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People, monsters, places

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Sirens, cat,e of the sun god, Athena, the suitors, Penelope.

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A midsummer nights dream

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In Athens, Hermia doesn’t want to marry Demetrius, she and Lysander run to the magical forest. Helena tells Demetrius and they go into the forest, Oberon sees and want Demetrius to like Helena, puck puts love just into wrong persons eyes hell goes down.

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Main characters

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Demetrius-likes Hermia. Puck-fairy-servant of Oberon.
Hermia-likes Lysander Egeus-Hermia’s dad
Lysander-likes Hermia. Hippolytia-theseus’ wife
Helena-likes Demetrious Theseus-duke of Athens
Oberon-King of fairies. Titania-queen of fairies

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Pyramus and Thisbe

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Tragic story of two lovers. Pretty much like Romeo and Juliette

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Iambic Pentameter

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certain kind of line of poetry, and has to do with the number of syllables in the line and the emphasis placed on those syllables.

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Format of a sonnet

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14 lines, compair love to nature, rhyme, abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

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Characters

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Atticus, Jim, scout, boo/aurther, dill, cal, Tom Robinson,

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Mocking bird

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They only ever sing for us never do any harm.

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