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10753511078	prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.	0
10753511690	novel	extended work of prose fiction, an attempt to represent the world.	1
10753523418	piqaresque	episodic satire (in case of don quixote), goes through series of adventures, the picar is the jaunty character who travels from area to area and has the misadventures	2
10753530282	bildungsroman	A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character- a novel of education	3
10753532597	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	4
10753533585	allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions; a related set of symbols intended to work together to provide additional meaning	5
10753539878	stanza	group of lines in a poem	6
10753539879	canto	group of stanzas in a poem	7
10753540780	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	8
10753542589	antiquity	the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe (pre-435)	9
10753542590	classical	typically Greek or Roman works that are commonly categorized as noteworthy	10
10753544002	lyric	A short poem that expresses a moment of insight, a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, poem of song-like quality	11
10753544003	free verse	poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	12
10753546488	fixed form	A poem that may be categorized by the pattern of its lines, meter, rhythm, or stanzas.	13
10753547697	end rhyme	A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line	14
10753548454	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	15
10753549773	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	16
10753549774	diction	word choice	17
10753550906	voice	The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker.	18
10753551518	tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	19
10753552200	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	20
10753553732	rhetorical	relationship between writer/speaker and reader/audience	21
10753557797	pathos	Appeal to emotion	22
10753557798	logos	Appeal to logic	23
10753558500	ethos	appeal to authority	24
10753559336	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	25
10753561958	hyperbole	exaggeration, overstatement for effect	26
10753563503	expressionism	20th century movement in art and literature where one explicitly says and names what's going on	27
10753565552	impressionism	A set of seemingly unrelated images is given in order to create an impression of what's going on. This term is much more commonly used in literature than Expressionism.	28
10753566679	periodic sentance	A sentence that holds the thought/reader in suspense until the end of the sentence. The main clause/predicate isn't revealed until the end of the sentence.	29
10753566680	loose sentance	The main clause is at the start of the sentence and the phrases/clauses that modify the main clause follow	30
10753568079	imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	31
10753568703	compare	Similarity between things	32
10753568704	contrast	Difference between things	33
10753571451	utopia	an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect	34
10753572595	dystopia	a failed attempt at an utopia which is often worse than things currently are	35
10753574563	science fiction	Speculative extrapolation in narrative form	36
10753575517	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality, tension between opposites	37
10753579428	verbal irony	sarcasm	38
10753580174	dramatic irony	irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.	39
10753580862	irony of situation	refers to an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended	40
10753581873	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	41
10753582837	moral	A practical lesson about right and wrong	42
10753583676	comedy	A humorous work of drama that traditionally ends in marriage	43
10753587295	tragedy	a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character, typically ends in death	44
10753589088	exposition	A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.	45
10753589931	charecterization	the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character	46
10753591075	chorus	A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.	47
10753592002	protagonist	main character	48
10753592003	antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	49
10753593190	foil	A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story, sometimes serves to provoke action in protag.	50
10753595726	flat character	A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story	51
10753598561	dynamic character	A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action	52
10753600330	tragic hero	a protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to their demise	53
10753602613	hamartia	Quality/strength of a character that, when applied in the wrong situation, leads to that character's downfall	54
10753604678	classical tragic structure	the way that a typical greek tragedy is structured, including complication, climax, and then unraveling.	55
10753612892	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	56
10753612893	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	57
10753613579	mixed metaphor	a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect	58
10753615086	simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	59
10753615708	Metonomy	A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty").	60
10753616524	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies often through mocking and humor	61
10783739071	line break	Where a line of poetry ends	62

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12029834756	a-	without, lack of	0
12029834757	inter-	between	1
12029834758	ab-	away from	2
12029834759	cyt(o)-	pertaining to a cell	3
12029834760	abdomi(n)-	abdomen	4
12029834761	de-	down from	5
12029834762	iso-	equal	6
12029834763	acr(o)-	pertaining to an extremity	7
12029834764	dermat(o)-	pertaining to the skin	8
12029834765	latero-	side	9
12029834766	ad-	to, toward	10
12029834767	di-	twice, double	11
12029834768	leuk(o)-	pertaining to anything white or to leukocytes (white blood cells)	12
12029834769	aden(o)-	pertaining to a gland	13
12029834770	dia-	through, completely	14
12029834771	lith(o)-	pertaining to a stone	15
12029834772	an-	without, lack of	16
12029834773	dys-	difficult, painful, abnormal	17
12029834774	macro-	large	18
12029834775	ana-	up, back, again	19
12029834776	ect(o)-	out from	20
12029834777	mal-	bad or abnormal	21
12029834778	angio-	vessel	22
12029834779	electro-	pertaining to electricity	23
12029834780	medi-	middle	24
12029834781	ante-	before, forward	25
12029834782	end(o)-	within	26
12029834783	anti-	against, opposed to	27
12029834784	enter(o)-	pertaining to the intestines	28
12029834785	melan-	black	29
12029834786	arteri(o)-	artery	30
12029834787	epi-	upon, on	31
12029834788	mening(o)-	pertaining to a membrane, particularly the meninges	32
12029834789	arthro-	pertaining to a joint	33
12029834790	erythr(o)-	pertaining to anything red or to erythrocytes (red blood cells)	34
12029834791	micro-	small	35
12029834792	auto-	self	36
12029834793	eu-	easy, good, normal	37
12029834794	mono-	one	38
12029834795	bi-	two	39
12029834796	ex(o)-	outside	40
12029834797	myel(o)-	pertaining to the spinal cord, the bone marrow, or myelin	41
12029834798	bi(o)-	pertaining to life	42
12029834799	extra-	outside, in addition	43
12029834800	my(o)-	pertaining to muscle	44
12029834801	blast(o)-	germ or cell	45
12029834802	gastr(o)-	pertaining to the stomach	46
12029834803	nas(o)-	pertaining to the nose	47
12029834804	blephar(o)-	pertaining to an eyelid	48
12029834805	glyc(o)-	sugar	49
12029834806	ne(o)-	new	50
12029834807	brady-	slow	51
12029834808	gynec(o)-	pertaining to females or the female reproductive organs	52
12029834809	nephr(o)-	pertaining to the kidney	53
12029834810	calc-	stone; also heel	54
12029834811	hemat(o)-	pertaining to blood	55
12029834812	neur(o)-	pertaining to a nerve or the nervous system	56
12029834813	cardi(o)-	pertaining to the heart	57
12029834814	hemi-	half	58
12029834815	noct-	night	59
12029834816	cephal(o)-	pertaining to the head	60
12029834817	hem(o)-	pertaining to blood	61
12029834818	olig(o)-	little, deficient	62
12029834819	cerebr(o)-	pertaining to the cerebrum, a part of the brain	63
12029834820	hepat(o)-	pertaining to the liver	64
12029834821	oophor(o)-	pertaining to the ovary	65
12029834822	cervic(o)-	pertaining to the neck or the uterine cervix	66
12029834823	heter-	other, different	67
12029834824	ophthalm(o)-	pertaining to the eye	68
12029834825	chole-	pertaining to bile	69
12029834826	hom-	same or like	70
12029834827	orchid(o)-	pertaining to the testicles	71
12029834828	chondr(o)-	pertaining to cartilage	72
12029834829	hydr(o)-	water	73
12029834830	orchi(o)-	pertaining to the testicles	74
12029834831	circum-	around, about	75
12029834832	hyper-	over, excessive	76
12029834833	oro-	pertaining to the mouth	77
12029834834	contra-	against, opposite	78
12029834835	hypo-	under, deficient	79
12029834836	ortho-	straight or normal	80
12029834837	cost(o)-	pertaining to a rib	81
12029834838	hyster(o)-	pertaining to the uterus	82
12029834839	oste(o)-	pertaining to bone	83
12029834840	cyan(o)-	blue	84
12029834841	infra-	below	85
12029834842	ot(o)-	pertaining to the ear	86
12030603577	para-	by the side of	87
12030603578	pseud(o)-	false	88
12030603579	semi-	half or partial	89
12030603580	path(o)-	pertaining to disease	90
12030603581	psych(o)-	pertaining to the mind	91
12030603582	sub-	under, moderately	92
12030603583	per-	through	93
12030603584	pulm(o)-	pertaining to the lung	94
12030603585	super-	above, excessive, or more than normal	95
12030603586	peri-	around	96
12030603587	pur-	pertaining to pus	97
12030603588	supra-	above	98
12030603589	phag(o)-	pertaining to eating, ingesting, or engulfing	99
12030603590	pyel(o)-	pertaining to the kidney or pelvis	100
12030603591	tachy-	fast	101
12030603592	pharyng(o)-	pertaining to the throat, or pharynx	102
12030603593	py(o)-	pertaining to pus	103
12030603594	therm-	pertaining to temperature	104
12030603595	phleb(o)-	pertaining to a vein	105
12030603596	quadr(i)-	four	106
12030603597	thorac(o)-	pertaining to the chest	107
12030603598	pneum(o)-	pertaining to respiration, the lungs, or air	108
12030603599	quar-	four	109
12030603600	trans-	across	110
12030603601	poly-	many	111
12030603602	quat-	four	112
12030603603	tri-	three	113
12030603604	post-	after, behind	114
12030603605	retr(o)-	backward or behind	115
12030603606	uni-	one	116
12030603607	pre-	before	117
12030603608	rhin(o)-	pertaining to the nose	118
12030603609	vas(o)-	vessel	119
12030603610	pro-	before, in front of	120
12030603611	salping(o)-	pertaining to a tube	121
12030603612	proct(o)-	pertaining to the rectum	122
12030603613	scler(o)-	hard; also means pertaining to the sclera	123
12031993168	-algia	pertaining to pain	124
12031993169	-emia	pertaining to the presence of a substance in the blood	125
12031993170	-ology	science of	126
12031993171	-asthen(o)	weakness	127
12031993172	-genic	causing	128
12031993173	-oma	tumor	129
12031993174	-blast	immature cell	130
12031993175	-gram	record	131
12031993176	-osis	pertaining to a disease process	132
12031993177	-cele	pertaining to a tumor or swelling	133
12031993178	-graph	a record or the instrument used to create the record	134
12031993179	-ostomy	surgical creation of an opening, or hole	135
12031993180	-centesis	pertaining to a procedure in which an organ or body cavity is punctured, often to drain excess fluid or obtain a sample for analysis	136
12031993181	-itis	inflammation	137
12031993182	-otomy	surgical incision	138
12031993183	-cyte	cell	139
12031993184	-lysis	decline, disintegration, or destruction	140
12031993185	-pathy	disease or a system for treating disease	141
12031993186	-ectomy	surgical removal of	142
12031993187	-megaly	enlargement of	143
12031993188	-phagia	pertaining to eating or swallowing	144
12031993189	-phasia	pertaining to speech	145
12031993190	-rrhage	abnormal or excessive flow or discharge	146
12031993191	-sis	a process, action, or condition	147
12031993192	-phobia	pertaining to an irrational fear	148
12031993193	-rrhagia	abnormal or excessive flow or discharge	149
12031993194	-taxis	order, arrangement of	150
12031993195	-plasty	plastic surgery	151
12031993196	-rrhaphy	suture of; repair of	152
12031993197	-trophic	pertaining to nutrition	153
12031993198	-plegia	paralysis	154
12031993199	-rrhea	flow or discharge	155
12031993200	-uria	pertaining to a substance in the urine or the condition so indicated	156
12031993201	-pnea	pertaining to breathing	157
12031993202	-scope	instrument for examination	158
12031993203	-ptosis	drooping	159
12031993204	-scopy	examination with an instrument	160
12031993205	acou-	hear	161
12031993206	carotid	great arteries of the neck	162
12031993207	gest-	carry, produce, congestion	163
12031993208	adip-	fat	164
12031993209	carpus	wrist	165
12031993210	gno-	know	166
12031993211	alb-	white	167
12031993212	cent-	a fraction in the metric system; one hundredth or 100	168
12031993213	-gram	something written or recorded	169
12031993214	alges-	pain	170
12031993215	cente-	to puncture (a body cavity)	171
12031993216	graph-	write, record	172
12031993217	andr-	male	173
12031993218	cili-	eyelid	174
12031993219	humerus	the bone in the upper arm	175
12031993220	aorta	large artery exiting from the left ventricle of the heart	176
12031993221	cleid(o)-	clavicle	177
12031993222	idi-	separate, distinct	178
12031993223	aqua-	water	179
12031993224	cubitus	elbow	180
12031993225	iod(o)-	iodine	181
12031993226	asphyxia	lack of oxygen or excessof carbon dioxide in the body that results in unconsciousness	182
12031993227	cycl-	circle or cycle	183
12031993228	lact-	milk	184
12031993229	asthen-	weak digit finger or toe	185
12031993230	lingu-	tongue	186
12031993231	audi-	to hear	187
12031993232	bronch-	windpipe	188
12031993233	-esthesi(o)-	pertaining to sensation or perception	189
12031993234	ocul-	eye	190
12031993235	bucc-	cheek	191
12031993236	febr-	fever	192
12031993237	ov-	egg	193
12031993238	bursa	pouch or sac	194
12031993239	flex	bend	195
12031993240	palpate	to examine by touch	196
12031993241	callus	hard, thick skin; also a meshwork of connective tissue that forms during the healing process after a fracture	197
12031993242	foramen	opening	198
12031993243	ped-	child or foot	199
12031993244	carcin-	cancer	200
12031993245	fract-	break	201
12031993246	percuss	to examine by striking	202
12031993247	phot-	light	203
12031993248	tom-	cut	204
12031993249	pleur-	rib, side	205
12031993250	sept-	wall, divider; also seven toxic poisonous	206
12031993251	pod-	foot serum the clear portion of body fluids, including blood	207
12031993252	trich-	hair	208
12031993253	pto-	fall	209
12031993254	sinus	cavity, channel, or hollow space	210
12031993255	ptyal-	saliva	211
12031993256	som(a)-	body	212
12031993257	varic-	varicose vein	213
12031993258	pyr-	fire	214
12031993259	spir-	coil	215
12031993260	radius	the forearm bone on the thumb side; also a line from the center of a circle or sphere to the edge	216
12031993261	stasis	slowing or stopping of the normal flow of a fluid, such as blood	217
12031993262	viscer-	internal organs	218
12031993263	ren-	kidney	219
12031993264	stern(o)-	sternum (breastbone)	220
12031993265	xen-	foreign (material)	221
12031993266	sangui(n)-	blood	222
12031993267	stoma	any small opening on the surface of the body, such as a pore; also, the opening created in the abdominal wall for the passage of urine or feces	223
12031993268	xer-	dry	224
12031993269	sebum	a fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands	225
12031993270	tact-	touch	226
12031993271	sect-	cut	227
12031993272	tetra-	four	228
12033117056	mega	large	229
14049507245	cyst(o)-	pertaining to the bladder or any fluid-containing sac	230
14049515686	intra-	within	231
14049523388	mega-	large	232
14049541893	ede-	swelling	233
14049541894	men-	month	234
14049558037	vertigo	a disordered sensation in which one's own body or the surroundings are perceived as moving	235
14049808420	sepsis	the presence of microorganisms or their toxins in the blood; also the toxic condition caused by such presence	236
14049811525	stature	height	237
14049811526	viscous	sticky	238
14049820686	ur-	urine	239

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9994309588	Confucianism	ancestor worship	0
9994309589	Zoroastrianism	Religion of the Persian Empire - stressed the fight between good and evil	1
9994309590	Exodus	Hebrews flight from slavery in Egypt - led by Moses	2
9994309591	Taoism (Daoism)	Chinese philosophy that influenced culture and values	3
9994309592	Yin and Yang	Represents balance of opposite forces of nature - important to Taoism	4
9994309593	Vedas & Upanishads	Hinduism sacred texts	5
9994309594	Shintoism	an ethnic religion located in japan and related to Buddhism; focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship	6
9994309595	Moses	Hebrew prophet associated with the Exodus and Ten Commandments	7
9994309596	Zoroaster	Religious prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism	8
9994309597	Siddhartha Gautama	Founder of Buddhism	9
9994309598	Eightfold Path & Four Noble Truths	Important beliefs of Buddhism	10
9994309599	Beliefs of Confucianism	Humans are good, filial piety, importance of education, code of politeness, ancestor worship	11
9994309601	Ten Commandments	A set of moral codes for the Hebrews which, according to the Bible, were given to Moses by God.	12
9994309602	Abraham	Founder of Judaism	13
9994309603	Beliefs of Taoism (Daoism)	Harmony with nature, humility, inner peace, simple life, yin and yang	14
9994309604	Monotheistic	Believe in one god (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism)	15
9994309606	Confucianism	Chinese philosophy that influence politics and social order	16
9994309607	Torah	Holy book of Judaism	17
9994309608	Jerusalem	Holy city for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam	18
9994309609	Hinduism	A religion and philosophy developed in India, characterized by belief in reincarnation and a supreme god who takes many different forms	19
9994309610	Caste System	A strict Hindu social class system that controlled every aspect of daily life	20
9994326182	Ahura Mazda	God of Zoroastrianism	21
9994326183	Zend Avesta	Holy book of Zoroastrianism	22
9994340895	Reincarnation	Belief of Hinduism & Buddhism - rebirth of the soul based on karma	23
9994342889	Karma	Belief of Hinduism & Buddhism - belief that your thoughts and actions impact future reincarnation	24
9994345728	Moksha	Ultimate goal of Hinduism	25
9994350853	Symbol for Eightfold Path		26
9994352099	Nirvana	Enlightenment - ultimate goal of Buddhism	27
9994354160	Tripitika	Important text of Buddhism	28
9994426810	Diaspora	Scattering of the Jewish people from their homeland	29
9994489407	Jesus of Nazareth	Believed by Christians to be the son and incarnation of God	30
9994492100	New Testament	Holy book of Christianity - contains life and teachings of Jesus	31
9994506175	Muhammad	Prophet of Allah and founder of Islam	32
9994508488	Qur'an	Holy book of Islam	33
9994508489	Five Pillars	Duties of all Muslims	34
9994510189	Hajj	Pilgrimage to Mecca for Muslims	35
9994512262	Kaaba	Shrine to Allah in Mecca	36
9994515232	Hegira	Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina	37
9994516889	Arabic	Language of Islam	38
9994517872	Hebrew	Language of Judaism	39
9994527941	Shinto	Ethnic religion of Japan	40
9994527942	Beliefs of Shinto	Importance of natural features, nature spirits, coexistence with Buddhism	41
9994887103	Christianity	Monotheistic religion that believes Jesus is the Messiah and son of God	42
9994891247	Islam	Monotheistic religion founded by Muhammad	43
9994894576	Spread of Islam		44
9994897318	Spread of Christianity		45
9994902785	Spread of Buddhism		46
9994905660	Spread of Hinduism		47