| A | B |
|---|
| elusive | hard to pin down |
| conflagration | a large fire |
| bellicose | aggressive |
| end rhyme | rhyming words at the ends of two or more lines of poetry |
| stanza | a verse paragraph |
| quatrain | a four line stanza |
| morose | gloomy |
| nettle | to annoy |
| bemoan | to complain about |
| surreptitious | sneaky |
| perpetuated | caused to continue |
| nefarious | wicked, immoral |
| pseudonym | an author's assumed name |
| conundrum | an enigma; a puzzle |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| metaphors | "The stream's a snake." |
| simile | "She dances like a princess." |
| hyperbole | "My date last night was the most beautiful girl in the world." |
| personification | The trees whispered. |
| paradox | "A little learning is a dangerous thing." |
| ALLITERATION | "The twisting trout twinkled below." |
| CONSONANCE | "...a murmuring of immemorial elms..." |
| symbol | A person, place, thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well; it can signify something else |
| point of view | The angle or perspective from which a story is told |
| foreshadowing | The introduction of clues early in a story to suggest or anticipate significant events that will develop later |
| Personification | giving an inanimate object human-like characteristics |
| Symbolism | when something concrete represents an abstract idea |
| tone | the writer's attitude is revealed through this |
| round character | shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues |
| flat character | we see only one side of a character |
| dynamic character | develops and grows during the course of the story |
| static character | does not change or grow |
| external conflict | main character struggles against and outside force |
| internal conflict | involves a character in conflict with himself or herself |
| connotation | the set of ideas associeated with a word in addition to its explicit meaning |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter |
| VICARIOUS | FELT OR UNDERGONE AS IF ONE WERE TAKING PART IN THE EXPERIENCE OF ANOTHER |
| VICARIOUSLY | JOHN LIVED ____(LY) THROUGH THE ACTION MOVIES HE WATCHED. |
| MANDATE | AN AUTHORITATIVE COMMAND |
| MANDATED | IT WAS ___(ED) THAT BOB DO FORTY HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE. |
| ALTRUISM | SELFLESSNESS; UNSELFISH CONCERN FOR OTHERS |
| ALTRUISM | THE WEALTHY MAN WAS KNOWN FOR HIS ____; HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO HELP THE LESS FORTUNATE. |
| LACKADAISICAL | LACKING ENERGY |
| LACKADAISICAL | THE ____ YOUNG MAN WAS TOO LAZY TO GET HIS OWN SODA. |
| INEPT | CLUMSY |
| INEPT | THE ___ REFEREE KEPT GETTING IN THE FORWARD'S WAY. |
| FINESSE | SKILLFUL; TACTFUL, REFINEMENT AND DELICACY OF PERFORMANCE |
| FINESSE | ERIC STAAL'S ___ ON THE ICE MAKES HIM A LEADING GOAL-SCORER. |
| TENACIOUS | PERSISTANT |
| TENACIOUS | THE ____ MAN WOULD NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER. |
| ENIGMA | A RIDDLE |
| ENIGMA | THE STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY COULD NOT BE EXPLAINED; THEY WOULD REMAIN AN ______. |
| ARCHAIC | OUTDATED |
| ARCHAIC | THEY FOUND _____ REMNANTS OF AN ANCIENT CIVILZATION AS THEY WERE EXCAVATING THAT PLOT OF LAND. |
| SACROSANCT | REGARDED AS SACRED |
| SACROSANCT | THE TEMPLE WAS ____ TO THE FOLLOWERS OF THAT RELIGION. |
| NEBULOUS | VAGUE; CLOUDY |
| NEBULOUS | WE FOUND HER DIRECTIONS TO BE SO ____ THAT NO ONE WAS SURE OF WHAT TO DO. |
| LOQUACIOUS | THE _____ GIRL WOULDN'T STOP TALKING! |
| LOQUACIOUS | VERY TALKATIVE |
