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SAT Vocabulary Week #2
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Language - English
11th Grade
08/19/2013

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Term
allegory
Definition
a story with a second meaning
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bathos
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anticlimax
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classical, classicism
Definition
related to Greek or Latin culture
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deductive reasoning
Definition
conclude something based on previously established ideas
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fallacy, fallacious reasoning
Definition
incorrect belief based on bad information or corrupt logic
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invective
Definition
abusive language
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malapropism
Definition
unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar.
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predicate
Definition
part of sentence that describes the subject with a verbs and adjectives
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reiteration
Definition
repeat an idea with different words
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sarcasm
Definition
humorous format of words
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stylistic devices
Definition
the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning, idea, or feeling to the literal or written.
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tone
Definition
the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.
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verbal irony
Definition
discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident meaning of words or actions.
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whimsy
Definition
playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor.
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retraction
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a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion
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