| A | B |
|---|
| Whimsy | an odd, fanciful or lighthearted notion |
| Alight | to settle or stay after descending |
| Divining rod | a rod, usually a forked hazel twig, said to move or dip when held over ground in which water, metal, etc., is to be found |
| Vernal | spring (adj). |
| Twain | the two, both, couple |
| Avocation | a hobby |
| Vocation | a person’s employment or occupation |
| Mortal | of or pertaining to human beings as subject to death; human |
| Stake | a monetary or commercial interest, investment, share, or involvement in something, as in hopes of gain |
| Grandiloquent | speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic |
| Oratorical | expressed with style and characteristics of a speech |
| Wheedling | coaxing or persuading |
| Didactic | instructive or lecturing in tone |
| Arcane | known or understood by very few; secret; obscure |
| Ethical | moral, principled |
| Metaphoric | figurative, not literal |
| Idiom | expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meaning of its constituent elements, such as kick the bucket. |
| Colloquialism | a word or phrase appropriate to conversation and other informal situations |
| Antithetical | directly opposed or contrasted; opposite |
| Diction | word choice |
| Aphoristic | language containing concise statements of wisdom or opinion, such as “Children should be seen and not heard,” or “People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.” |
| Concrete | literal, tangible, not abstract |
| Trimeter | a line of poetry containing three metrical feet |
| Tetrameter | a line of poetry containing four metrical feet |
| Pentameter | a line of poetry containing five metrical feet |
| Hexameter | a line of poetry containing six metrical feet |
| Iamb/iambic | a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed and one STRESSED syllable: the first two syllables of iAMbic make an iamb; deFY). |
| Dactyl/dactylic | a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, one STRESSED followed by two unstressed: MERrily, HAPpily |
| Anapest/anapestic | a metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two unstressed followed by one STRESSED (Twas the NIGHT | before CHRIST- | mas when ALL | through the HOUSE|) |
| Trochee/trochaic | a metrical foot consisting of one STRESSED and one unstressed syllables (WONder, NEEdy) |
