| A | B |
|---|
| moderate | kept within a certain limit |
| prowess | the strength and courage someone has |
| obscure | unclear; unknown |
| indignantly | anger due to an injustice |
| frantic | quickly and nervously; crazy |
| anxiety | uneasy, worried feeling |
| obstinacy | a person's unwillingness to change |
| strive | to try hard or compete |
| descendants | to come after |
| myth | stories passed down from generations to explain the unexplainable |
| theme | the universal message or lesson |
| form | they way the words are arranged on the page |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| rhythm | pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| stanza | lines arranged in a group |
| line | the main unit of a poem |
| consonants | letters of the alphabet that are not vowels |
| aspect | a characteristic or feature of something |
| cultural | relating to culture |
| metaphor | comparison of unlike things |
| connotation | the way a word makes the reader feel |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of a word |
| poet | the author of the poem |
| speaker | the narrator of the poem |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| free verse | poem that does not rhyme or have |
| figurative language | the author does not literally mean what's said |
| repetition | the repeating of word or phrases |
