| Term | Definition |
|---|
| din | noisy distraction |
| visage | face, appearance |
| succor | help, assistence |
| repine | to express discontent, sadness |
| bereft | to take away or deprive of, to disappoint, sorrow |
| chide | scold |
| ideology | set of beliefs, ideas |
| recompense | to give back |
| manifold | many times |
| persevere | continue on, persist |
| petty | insignificant |
| precept | rule, principle |
| timorous | shy, timid |
| aspire | reaching, striving for |
| habit | clothing |
| arrayed | dressed, clothed |
| doleful | filled with sadness, causing grief, mournful |
| heathen | person who doesn't believe in god of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Or uncivilized, different |
| wallow | to roll around in, indulge in, devote |
| bereaved | deprived condition, taken away |
| venerated | respected, praised, exhaulted |
| conclave | secret meeting |
| edification | gaining/teaching of knowledge, edify |
| cower | curl/shrink up in fear |
| iniquity | absense of morals, spiritual value. Wickedness |
| allegory | an extended metaphor with a double meaning |
| encomium | poems of praise |
| propitious | favorabely, helping out |
| metonymy | a substitution of one word for another when the two terms are simply related |
| synecdoche | another substitution of one word for another based on a part to the whole relationship (only using part of the whole to describe it) |
| venison | deer meat |
| conceit | elaborate comparison of two things that are not alike |
| nux | yes |
| denotation | dictionary definition of a word |
| connotation | context definition of a word |
| typology | method of interpretation that interpreted events to the New Testament as TYPES of events of the Old Testament, a foreshadow |
| jeremiad | narrative of decline |
| pun | play on words |
| quatrain | four line stanza (The Indian Burying Ground) |
| occasional poem | a poem wrote after or upon an event |
| meditation | attempt to open convo with God, dwell on significant occasions and learn |
| syntax | word order, sentence structure |
| diction | word choice |
| elision | apostrophes used to fit meter (Ne'er, o'er) |
| couplet | two lines that rhyme |
| enjambment | when a line doesn't have punctuation at the end |
| end-stopped | when a line has a period at its end |
| heroic couplet | iambic pentameter with consecutive lines that rhyme |
| iamb | "unstress, stress" |
| iambic pentameter | 10 feet of unstress, stress. Most common way to write poems |
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