| A | B |
|---|
| psychic | mental |
| shrink | psychiatrist |
| sulky | petulant or brooding |
| tarmac | a paved road, airport runway, parking area, etc. |
| piecemeal | bit by bit, gradually |
| wan | washed out, pallid, feeble |
| blight | impairment, ruination or decay |
| brusque | abrupt, blunt in manner |
| infirmity | ill-health, frailty |
| patronizing | adopting a condescending or superior tone |
| intuitive | innate or instinctive |
| mutability | changeability, transience |
| intimation | hint, insinuation, or inkling |
| mortality | the state or condition of being subject to death and transience |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| diction | word choice |
| metaphor | The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as |
| cliché | a trite or formulaic saying |
| polysyndeton | the use of multiple conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted |
| personification | a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object |
| feminine rhyme | a rhyme involving two syllables |
| enjambment | the use of run-on lines in poetry |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within a line of poetry |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry |
| alliteration | Repetition of the beginning sounds of words |
| tone | the emotional coloring or mood of a work |
| device | a particular figure of speech, combination of word sounds, etc., used in a literary work to evoke a desired effect or reaction in the reader |
