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- exorbitant
- exceeding normal bounds, greater or more than reasonable
- injunction
- order or command
- expostulate
- to argue earnestly, attempt to dissuade
- fateful
- having great consequences
- censure
- to blame or find fault with
- crusade
- a prolonged struggle for a just cause
- prodigy
- a person who shows talent at an early age, extraordinary event/thing
- appraise
- estimate value of, judge
- definitive
- final answer, conclusive
- motif
- a theme or idea in a work of artor literature that is devolped or repeated
- militant
- ready to fight for a cause
- moribound
- close to death, dying
- haiku
- a three line japanese poem
- erudite
- having/ demonstrating knowledge, learned.
- pariah
- a social outcast
- deem
- to consider, believe
- personifacation
- a figure of speech in which a non living thing is talked about as if it were alive
- mood
- the overall emotion created by a peice of literature
- affront
- to insult or offend
- amorous
- expressing love, being in love
- hyperbole
- a bold statement, exageration
- scruntinize
- examine with great care, close examination
- ingrate
- ungrateful person
- external rhyme
- words within a line of poetry that rhyme
- nondescript
- hard to describe
- lyric poetry
- a highly musical verse that expresses the feelings of a speaker
- rhyme scheme
- a pattern of rhymes
- raucous
- rough and unpleasant to the ear, boisterous
- lapse
- fall from certain level of conduct, minor mistake, a pause or interval
- impervious
- incapable of being penetrated, not affected
- sumptuous
- extravagantly splendid, luxurious
- simile
- a comparison between 2 unlike things using like or as
- protege
- one whose training or career is helped along
- free verse
- poetry without a regular meter
- stanza
- a consecutive group of lines that form a single unit
- metaphor
- a comparison between 2 unlike things, not using like or as
- voluble
- characterized by a ready flow of words, talkative
- repose
- to lie at rest, to place in a person or group
- synthetic
- not naturally produced, artificial
- facet
- any of the flat surfaces on a stone made by cutting, an aspect
- allure
- to attract or charm
- scintillate
- to flash or sparkle, lively, witty
- facsimile
- an exact copy
- theme
- the message
- figurative language
- writing of speech that is not taken literally
- transmute
- change in form or appearance
- tone
- the atittude the writer takes on about the subject, character or audience
- oxymoron
- words that condradict eachother
- subsidize
- support by giving financial aid
- imagery
- language that appeals to the senses
- adroit
- clever, adept, skillful
- divulge
- to make something secret known, to reveal
- ballad
- a song like poem that tells a story dealing with romance and adventure
- cleave
- to cling/ be faithful to, split with a sharp insturment
- narrative poetry
- a story told in verse
- avocation
- activity for pleasure, a hobby
- tacit
- implied
- depreciate
- to make or become less in value, to belittle
- concrete poetry
- a poem with a shape that suggests its subject
- induct
- to install in office, admit to a society
- poetry
- a kind of rythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech
- speaker
- the voice talking in a poem
- rhyme
- the repitition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds follwing themin close words
- antiquity
- the ancient world(before the Middle Ages), quality of great age
- quandary
- a state of being in doubt
- demeanor
- behavior, bearing
- belittle
- to present or speak of as unimportant