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Middle Eastern Literature-MMA-4th period
VL5
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10th Grade
04/11/2011

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ELEGY
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noun: a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
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FIGURES OF SPEECH
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noun: any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect.
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ANTITHESIS
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noun: opposition; contrast:
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KORAN (QUR'AN)
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SERMON
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noun: 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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FRAME STORY
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noun: a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
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MORAL
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adjective: of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical:
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INVOKING
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verb: to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for
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PRODIGIOUS
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adjective: extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc
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INVERTED
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verb: to turn upside down.
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ADJURED
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verb: 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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firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion.
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PERFIDIOUS
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adjective: deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful:
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