| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Magnify | Increase in size, volume or significance, enlarge |
| Muster | Gather or bring together, gathering, |
| Somber | Grave or even gloomy in character, gloomy, |
| Tremble | Move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways, shiver, |
| Impetuous | Marked by violent force, impulsive, |
| Pierce | Sound sharply or shrilly, Stab, |
| Gesture | Motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling |
| Confession | A written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party |
| Muffle | Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping |
| Rhythm | The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements |
| Rhyme | Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) |
| End Rhyme | The use of rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry |
| Internal Rhyme | A rhyme in which one of the rhyming words is within the line of poetry and the other is at the end of the same line or within the next line |
| Exact Rhyme | The later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another |
| Approximate Rhyme | A rhyme that is imperfect, near, slant or oblique rhyme |
| Meter | Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time |
| Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse |
| Assonance | The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
| Onomatopoeia | Using words that imitate the sound they denote |
| Imagery | The ability to form mental images of things or events |
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