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ancient africa
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English
10th Grade
03/22/2011

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refrain
Definition
resist doing something
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proverb
Definition
a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
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alliteration
Definition
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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parallelism
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a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses
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interactive
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synergistic: used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more)
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assonance
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the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
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literary epic
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