vocab-lincs
Terms
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- mulatto
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A child of one Blck person and one White person
(noun) - objective
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Not influenced byemotion or personal opinion
(adj.) - subjective
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Based on personal feelings or prejudice
(adj.) - segregation
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Separation of enthnic groups in housing, schooling, or other areas of life
(noun) - integration
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Inclusion of people all ethnic groups without restriction
(noun) - interracial
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Between different races
(adj.) - discrimination
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the act of predjudice or bias against a group
(noun) - civil disobedience
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Deliberate refusal to obey laws as a nonviolent protest
(noun) - appeal
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To transfer or apply to transfer (a case) to a higher court for a hearing
(verb) - myriad
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Amounting to a vast infinate number
(adj.) - doctrine
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A principle or body of principles of presented for acceptance or belief; dogma
(noun) - jurisdiction
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The right and power to interpret and apply law
(noun) - institutionalize
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To make part of a structured and usually well-established system
(verb) - charisma
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A rare personal quality attributed to leaders who arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm
(noun) - status quo
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The existing condition or state of affairs
(noun) - heckle
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To harass or bother (somebody)with questions or annoying remarks
(verb) - inherent
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Being part of the basic nature of a person or thing
(adj.) - scrutiny
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A close carful examination or study
(noun) - deferred
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Postonrd or delayed
(adj.) - defiance
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The acto of openly opposing someone or something
(noun) - incognito
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With one's identity hidden or disguised
(adv. and adj.) - rhetoric
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The act of the effective and persuasive use of language
(noun) - denomination
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An organized religous group with a common faith name
(noun) - prevalent
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Widely existing or commonly occurring
(adj.) - remorse
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Deep moral anguish and regret for past misdeeds
(noun) - discreet
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With caution or self-control in one's speech or behavior, prudent
(adj.) - restraint
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Control of feelings
(noun) - retribution
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Something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment
(noun) - rhyme
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Repetiton of the final stressed and uunstressed syllables in poetry
(noun) - rhythm
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the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
(noun) - metaphor
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A figur of speech that states that one thing "is" something else but in a literal sense is not
(noun) - simile
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A figure of speech in which unlike things are compared usually using "like" or "as"
(noun) - paraphrase
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A restatemnt of the content of a poem (or other text)designed to make its "prose meaning" clear
(noun or verb) - meter
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the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry
(noun) - theme
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The central idea of a literay work
(noun) - alliteration
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The repetion of sounds of initial or stressed syllables often used to reinforce meaning
(noun) - allusion
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A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in a literary work
(noun) - irony
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A situation, or use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy
(noun) - assonance
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the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words
(noun) - consonance
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the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or importnat words
(noun) - onompotopoeia
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the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound
(noun) - bathos
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a description that can move us to laughter instead of tears
(noun) - paradox
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an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true
(noun) - hyperbole
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an exaggeration or overstatement in the service of truth
(noun) - explication
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a written explanation in great detail of a poem
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