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 |