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Vocabulary

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Flailing
Swinging
Squall
Brief storm
Suffer
Allow
Myth
Anonymouse sound
Mica
Colored, translucent mineral
Antithesis
ides expressed in balanced statment
Disobliging
Offending
Elemented
Comprised , composed
Alliteration
the repetation of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another
Gaming
Gambling
Dialogue
Conversation between two or more people.
Bootless
Useless ; futile
Measure
Rhythmic sound.
Canto
Subdivision in a long poem
Span
nine inches
Comedy
In general, a story that ends happily.
meter
stressed and unstressed syllables
Couplet
Two consecutive lines.
Atmosphere
The mood or feeling
Palfrey
Horse
Disgrace
Out of favor
Farrow
To produce piglets
Analogy
Comparison of two things
Oblialiely
off course
Epitaph
Inscription of a tombstone
Autobiography
A written account of the authors own life.
Epigram
A brief clever
journal
day-by-day record of events
Character
An individual in a story or play
Exhortations
Strong advice
Genial
Creative
Profanation
Lack of reverence
Breach
break ; split
Diction
A writer's or speakers choice of words.
End-stop line
A line in poetry in which the meter and meaning conclude with the end of the line.
Epiphany
moment of sudden sight.
Fustaian
Cloth made of linen and cotton
Blankverse
Poetery written in unrymed lambic
Dissonance
A harsh, disscordant combination of sounds.
Foil
Character who sets off another character
Pastoral
Relating to herds or flocks pasture land, country life.
Sullen
Gloomy
Faint
Become weak; lose heart
Conflict
A struggle or clash
Imagery
Language that appeals to sence
Allegory
Story where settings sound abstract
Climax
The point of greatest emotional intensity or suspence in a plot.
Denotation
The literal dictionary definition of a word.
Elegy
Poem that Mourns the death of a person.
Balled
A song , poem that tells a story

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