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The Cask...

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
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catacombs   underground cemetery  
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virtuso   expert  
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impunity   free from punishment  
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fettered   handcuff  
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connoisseur   authority on wine  
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gait   walk, stride  
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precluded   prevented  
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retribution   penalty  
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afflicted   burdened  
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explicit   straight forward  
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plot   story  
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verbal irony   saying one thing/meaning another  
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narrator   one who tells story  
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author   writes books  
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protagonist   main character  
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mood   spirit/tone of the story  
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point of view   perspective  
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theme   message  
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metaphor   A comparison without using "like" or "as"  
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simile   A comparison using "like" or "as"  
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personification   A figure of speech that endows animals...with human qualities  
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hyperbole   A figure of speech that uses exaggeration  
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onomatopoeia   A figure of speech in which the sound of the word is suggestive of its meaning  
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alliteration   The repetition of consonant sounds (tongue twister)  
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assonance   A repetition of vowel sounds--radiant, name, (Long "A")  
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internal rhyme   a rhyme that occurs within a stanza line that "agrees" with an end word  
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external/end rhyme   a rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in a poem  
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symbolism   a word that represents and idea or thought in a poem  
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