LIT

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EULOGY

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A speech, writing, poem containing praise for someone who recently retired or passed away

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SATIRE

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A way of criticizing people or ideas in a humourous way, esp in order make a political point, or piece of writing that use this style

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SEANCE

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a meeting where people try to talk with dead people

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WOE

tale of woe

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Big problems and troubles

**Tale of woe **- extreme sadness

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ACCOLADE

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Touch one person’s shoulders with a sword at the bestowing of a knighthood
An award or priviledge granted as a special honor or as an acknowledge of merit

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GLADIATOR

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A man trained to fight with weapons against other men or wild animals in an arena

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APHRODISIAC

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Thing that cause excitement
Food, drink, drug stimulates sexual desire

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FLAILING FIRE

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A fire that moves energetically in an uncontrolled way

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CLOAK AND SCYTHE

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the death

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DOE EYES

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Large, wide open eyes, seductive eyes

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ELEGY

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A sad poem or song, esp remembering someone who has died or sth in the past

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EPITAPH

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A short piece of writing or a poem about a dead person, esp one written on their gravestone

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LABYRINTH

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a confusing set of connecting passages or paths in which it is easy to get lost:

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DEMISE

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the death of a person

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MIMESIS

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The act of representing or imitating reality in art, esp literature

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O-XY-‘MO-RON

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Combination of contradictory or incongruous words

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PALINDROMES

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a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward

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PARSE

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(grammar) Separate a sentence into grammatical parts, such as subject

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PREFACE

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An intro at the beginning of a book explaining its purpose, thanking people who helped the author

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‘PREAMBLE

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A preliminary / preparatory statement, an intro

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PREPOSITION

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Words, or group of words that indicate spatial relationship

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PSALMS

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A holy poem or song, esp one of the 150 collected together in the bible

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RHETORIC

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Speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people
Clever language that sounds good but it’s not sincere or has no real meaning

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TAU-‘TO-LO-GY

tôˈtäləjē

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The use of 2 words or phrases that express the same meaning, in a way that is unnecessary and usually unintentional

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**WEASEL WORD**

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Sth that someone says either to avoid answering a question clearly or to make someone believe that sth that is not true

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**CLOAK-AND-DAGGER**

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Secrective Used to describe an exciting story involving secrets and mystery, often about spies, or something that makes you think of this

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**MAGNUM OPUS**

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The most important piece of work done by a writer or artist

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**'PRE-QUEL** | ˈpriː.kwəl

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A film, book, or play that develops the story of an earlier film, etc. by telling you what happened before the events in the first film, etc.

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**E-'PIS-TRO-PHE** | i-ˈpi-strə-fē

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Repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect

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**DI-'A-CO-PE** | daɪˈækəpi

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The repetition of a word or phrase broken up by one or more intervening words *"I hate to be poor, and we are degradingly poor, offensively poor, miserably poor!"*

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**LEXICON**

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(A list of) all the words used in a particular language or subject, or a dictionary

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**DIATRIBE**

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An angry speech or writing that criticizes someone severely

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**'SI-MI-LE** | ˈsɪm.ə.li

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A figure of speech comparing 2 unlike things

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**STAR-SPANGLED**

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Covered, glittering, or decorated with stars

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**SONNET**

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14-line poem, 10 syllables, has fixed pattern of rhythmes

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**GOBLIN**

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small, ugly creature that's harmful to humans

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**E-'PI-TO-ME**

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a typical, highest example of a stated quality, shown by particular person or thing

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**SHORTHAND**

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fast writing, using short lines and symbols to note

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**AN-'TI-THE-SIS** | ænˈtɪθ.ə.siːz

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the exact opposite of things the difference or opposition between 2 things

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**EPONYMOUS**

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place name, etc one that comes from name of a person

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**AS THE SAYING GOES**

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**PALINDROME**

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phrases that mean the same thing when reading backwards or frontwards

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**PATHETIC-VILLE**

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**ABRIDGMENT**

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book, place, piece of writing that's been made shorter by removing unnecessary details

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**ALLITERATION**

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occurence of same letter / sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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**CADENCE**

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the rhythm of sound

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**ALLEGORY**

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story, play, poem, etc that represents particular moral, religious and or political ideas

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**INDENTATION**

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First-line blank space

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**SERPENT**

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a snake a sly and treacherous person

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**RECURSION**

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the practice of putting structure like phrase into structure of the same kind

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**PAUPER**

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a medieval brokie

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**ERGO**

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Therefore

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**PROSE**

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the ordinary language people

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**EROS**

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Greek god of love

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**MESTRA**

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Erysichthon's daughter - able to turn herself into any form and shape

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**ERYSICHTHON**

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the ravenous king

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**SAMARITAN**

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messiah

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**FLEDGING**

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a young bird growing feathers learning to fly

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**EXCALIBUR**

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the magic sword of King Arthur - symbol of kingship and great power

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**PERTRIFIED**

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Describe something that stopped changing and developing, and it belongs to past

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**PETRICHOR**

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the smell produced when rain falls on the ground

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**PROPINQUITY**

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Kinship, proximity

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GOSSAMER (n & adj)

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the very thin thread that spiders produce to make webs

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BEELINE

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A straight line between 2 places Go directly and quickly towards sth or someone

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ANTHROPOMORPHISM

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attribution of human characteristics to non-human entities (God, animals, objects)

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PERSONIFICATION

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Use figurative language to give inanimate objects characteristics in a metaphorical and representative way

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DERIVATIVE

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a word developed from another word

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BACCHANAL

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a crazed party with drunken revelry, sexual ectasy

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LIMERICK

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A humorous poem