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Vocab Flashcards

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Antagonist

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The force actively opposing the protagonist.

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Protagonist

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The main character in a story

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Climax

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The most exciting part of the story

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Conflict

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Struggle between two opposing forces

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Dynamic Character

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A character who undergoes significant inner change

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Exposition

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The description of background info or setting

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Initial Incident

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The incident that introduces the main character which begins to introduce the conflict

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Falling Action

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Is after the climax and cleans up loose ends and the narrative

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Flat Character

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A character that is 2D or uncomplicated and does not go through very much character development

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Foil Character

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A character that has a contrasting personality or traits

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Narrator

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A person that depicts the plot

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Round Character

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A character that is complex and undergoes much character development

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Resolution

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The conclusion of the story’s problem

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Static Character

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A character that does not undergo any development

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Stock Character

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A character that people accept quickly and does not need development

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Plot

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A visual display of the main events

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First Person Narration

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When author uses the pronoun “I”. Speaking through the protagonist’s eyes and mouth

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Flashback

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When the narrative jumps back to an early time

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Foreshadowing

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Clues that hint at a later event

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Irony

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A contrast between expectation and reality

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Situational Irony

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Contradiction between what you expect to happen and what actually happened

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Dramatic Irony

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The reader knows something important but the characters don’t know it

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Third Person Narration

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The author uses the pronoun “Them and they”

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Third Person Limited Narration

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You know everything about one person. Author uses “Them and They”

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Third Person Omniscient Narration

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You are all knowing about everything. The author uses “them and they”

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Theme

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The central message or insight about the piece of writing.

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Act

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How playwrights break up the action of a play

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Antecedent Action

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Is any event that happens before the main action of the narrative

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Antonym

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The opposite of a word

Ex) sad is happy

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Autobiography

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A book about someone’s life and is written by that person

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Bias

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Prejudice for or against one thing often seeming unfair

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Biography

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A book about someone’s life written by someone else

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Context

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The words surrounding the a word which impacts the setting or meaning of said word

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Dialogue

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Talking in books or play

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Fable

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Short piece of narrative that exemplifies a moral of human behaviour

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Figurative Language

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Is phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get the point across

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37
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Legend

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A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical be is not authenticated

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38
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Literal Meaning

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Taking words as they are without metaphor etc.

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Mood

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The atmosphere created by the setting, attitude, and descriptions

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Tone

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The attitude created by the author to show his/ her feelings about the subject and audience

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Moral

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Is a message/ lesson learned from a story or poem

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Genre

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A category of literature or music

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Inference

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Educated guess

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Mythology

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A collection of myths

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Narrative Text

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46
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Non- Fiction

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Writing that is based of facts

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Sarcasm

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Use of Verbal Irony to mock

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Scene

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The place where an incident in fiction or real life occurs

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Slang

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Mix of words that is considered informal
Y’all
You all

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Stage Directions

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Directions in a script that tell the actors where to enter and stand

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Stereotype

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What people assume of someone or something

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Suspense

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State of excitement and apprehension

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Synonym

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Different word, same meaning

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Thesis

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Main points about an essay

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Topic

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Defined by the subject of a place of literature

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Understatement

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When something is represented as less than what it actually is

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Acronym

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An abbriviation that is using the first letters of the words you are abbriviating

58
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Analysis

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To carefully look at a text or element of a text

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Analogy

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Comparing two things to explain or clarify

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Ancedote

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An intresting short piece of literature about a real incident or person

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Cliche

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Phrase that is said a lot too much

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Connotation

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An additional idea or thought that is invoked from the literal meaning

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Denotation

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The dictionary meaning contrasting the connotation of that word

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Euphemism

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Putting things bluntly

65
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Homonym

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Same spelling different meaning

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Idiom

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Phrase that makes no sense with the individual words

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Illustration

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A visual example that is used to clarify

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In Context

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Using the words around to clarify the meaning

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Informational Text

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A text that is used to inform

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Jargon

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Special words that certain professions understand or use more

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same sound in closely connected word

72
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Free Verse

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The modern way to write poetry.

73
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Hyperbole

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Over exaggerated statement

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Metaphor

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Saying something is something else.

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Metonymy

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When a thing is referred to by a closely associated word.

Ex) The Crown———Queen or King

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Onomatopoeia

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A sound effect in writing

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Paradox

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A statement that is absurd but makes sense or has some truth.
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

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Personification

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A figure of speech that gives abiotic things lifelike features

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Pun

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A joke that exploits the different meanings of words

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Rhyme

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A word that has corresponding sounds at the end or beginning of words

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Rhyme Scheme

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A pattern of words at the ends of lines of a poem or verse

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Simile

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A figure of speech that compares two things using the words like or as

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Stanza

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A series of lines grouped together in poetry

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Symbol

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A person, place or thing that suggests something more than itself

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Synecdoche

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Referring to something as a part of the whole

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Verse

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Writing that has a specific rhyme

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Allusion

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Referring to pop culture in literature indirectly

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Assonance

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Repetition of just vowel sounds

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Ballad

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A story or song that has short stanzas. Usually unknown authorship.

90
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Consonance

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Repetition of just consonants sounds

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Couplet

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A poem that has two lines per stanza

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Diction

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The specific word choice to convey a meaning

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Haiku

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A structure of a poem that consists of three lines. Usually talks about nature. Has the pattern of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.

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Imagery

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Through words can fire senses like: it smelt of burnt wood etc.

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Quatrain

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A four-line stanza

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Oxymoron

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A phrase that has opposites in it.

EX) deafening silence

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Persona

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The traits people present to the world

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Lyric poem

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A poem that expresses personal emotions usually in a song lyric form

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Narrative Poem

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A poem in which one tells a story.

Metered verse

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