| A | B |
|---|
| Sector | zone, segment or area |
| Arc | a curve, arch, or sweep |
| Poplar | type of tree |
| Endeavor | to attempt |
| Bestow | to confer upon or present (as a gift or title) |
| Vestments | ceremonial clothing, particularly in terms of religious garb |
| Venture | to hazard or dare |
| Officious | self-important, bossy, or bureaucratic |
| Wistful | full of wishful longing |
| Earnest | deeply serious, determined or sincere |
| Sensibility | Mental or emotional responsiveness toward something |
| Plodding | slow and heavy |
| Pacifist | antiwar |
| Resignation | acquiescence and acceptance |
| Cynicism | An attitude of scornful negativity or distrust |
| Colloquial | used to describe down-to-earth diction |
| Eloquent | used to describe expressive, moving, powerful diction |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action that it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance |
| Meter | the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" |
| Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants |
| Internal | used to describe rhyme that occurs between words within a verse line |
| Simile | a figure of speech that expresses the resemblance of one thing to another of a different category, usually introduced by as or like |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Tempo | cadence or pace (for example, upbeat or slow) |
| Prosaic | used to describe language that is mundane, colorless and everyday |
| Irony | Incongruity or discrepancy between what might be expected and what actually occurs |
