| Term | Definition |
| unrequited | not recipracated, not returned as the same, unanswered |
| bizarre | strikingly unusual, unconventional |
| benign | kind and gentle, harmless |
| spurn | to reject with contempt |
| expound | to explain in detail |
| beguiling | charming sometimes in a deceitful way |
| timbre | the distinctive quality of sound produced by a particular voice or musical instrument, the tone |
| oxymoron | a few words (minimum of two) that contradict each other, or are opposites |
| hyperbole | wild exaggeration |
| alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words or within words |
| iambic pentameter | iambic=(describes the stress pattern) pentameter=(five of these iambic patterns) |