Morgan Poetry Quiz 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 admonish | warn strongly |
| aggrandizement | increase the power, status, or wealth of |
| alienate | cause (someone) to feel isolated or estranged |
| aloof | not friendly or forthcoming, cool and distant |
| altruistic | showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others |
| ambiguous | having more than one possible meaning |
| ameliorate | to make better |
| antagonism | an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups |
| bombastic | high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious. |
| cajole | influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering |
| callous | to make hard, harden, to be hard. |
| catalyst | something that causes an important event to happen |
| chastise | to criticize severely |
| chimerical | a thing that is hoped for or wished for but is in fact illusory or impossible to achieve |
| circumspect | wary and unwilling to take risks |
| alliteration | the repetition of an initial consonant sound within the same line of poetry |
| assonance | the repetition of a vowel sound within the same line of poetry |
| perfect rhyme | the perfect correspondence between the final vowel and consonant sounds in the last word(s) of two lines of poetry |
| imperfect rhyme (vowel rhyme, consonant rhyme, slant rhyme, near rhyme) | the approximate correspondence of consonant or vowel sounds in the last words of two lines of poetry |
| anaphora | the repetition of an initial word of phrase in successive lines of poetry |
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