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Middle Eastern Literature_K.C.D
Vocab List 5.
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10th Grade
04/05/2011

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Elegy
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N. Is a formal poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something that is lost.
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Figures of Speech
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N. Any expressive use of language as a metaphor, simile, or personification.
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Antithesis
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N. Opposition
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Koran
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N. The sacred text of Islam.
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Sermon
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N. A discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
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A Frame Story
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When tales in a collection are loosely together by an element that was common in medieval literature.
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Moral
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Adj. Of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
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Invoking
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V. To call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for
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Prodigious
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Adj. Extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.
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Inverted
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V. To turn upside down
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Adjured
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V. To charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty.
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Resolutely
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Adj. With great effort or determination.
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Prefidious
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Adj. Deliberately faithless
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