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Vocab Quiz Week 8

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run away
harsh criticism or disapproval
carefree and happy and lighthearted
a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
a trite or obvious remark
A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.
using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in 'he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')
after this, therefore because of this
a humorous play on words
a learned man; a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media
a correspondence in terminal sounds of units of composition or utterance
witty language used to convey insults or scorn
form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly
behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state
a comparison using "like" or "as"
comedy stressing farce and horseplay
a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
a line of metrical text
a sign of something about to happen

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