| A | B |
|---|
| convalescence | a gradual recovery back to health |
| astride | on both sides of |
| poised | dignified |
| incredulously | skeptically |
| remorse | regret |
| exposure | laying open to the element of the weather |
| maneuver | to drive with skill |
| anguish | suffering or pain |
| recuperate | to recover |
| resonant | echoing sounds |
| improvising | to make up as you go |
| resentment | anger toward someone |
| downgrade | minimize importance |
| mohair | a type of upholstery |
| decrepit | old and run down |
| ministrations | giving care to someone |
| primitive | early in history |
| antagonist | one who competes with another |
| provocation | to be angered or threatened |
| plethoric | overfull |
| conjuration | a supernatural accomplishment |
| melancholy | a gloomy state |
| commingles | mixed or combined |
| pertinacity | persistent |
| rampant | violent action or spirit |
| ambuscade | attacking from a hidden position |
| calamity | misfortune |
| multitudinous | in great numbers |
| cessation | stopping |
| discomfited | confused |
| personification | gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |
| meter | a regular patten of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| sonnet | a highly-structured, 14-line poem written on one theme or topic |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyme formed by the end rhyme on a poem |
| extended metaphor | overall comparison used throughout an entire poem or story |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words |
| onomatopoeia | a word or phrase that imitates the sound of what it describes |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words |
