Poetry Set 1
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 confidant | some one who can be trusted with anything |
| venerable | deserving a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character |
| celestial | relating to the sky, space, or the heavens |
| loathe | to feel intense dislike or disgust for; to hate |
| palpable | able to be touched or felt; so intense it can almost be felt |
| lonesome | marked by dejection from being alone |
| pensive | showing pensive sadness |
| nostalgic | unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons |
| empowered | to make someone stronger and more confident, especially in controlling their lives and claiming their rights |
| imagery | the representation through language of sense experience |
| mood | the emotion, feeling, or atmosphere of a poem |
| author | the person who wrote the poem |
| speaker | a created character, whose dialogue is the poem |
| figurative language | Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words. Figurative language is also called "figures of speech." |
| metaphor | a comparison of two dissimilar things that does not use the words "like" or "as." |
| simile | A comparison of two dissimilar things using the words "like" or "as." |
| denotation | The dictionary meaning, or meanings, of a word. |
| connotation | The ideas, meanings, and feelings suggested by, or associated with, a word. |
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