Unit 6: Week 5: Out in the World

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  1. ancient
    belonging to times long past
    Her pages dance with ancient tales,
    A feast for hungry eyes!
  2. blare
    make a loud noise
    Music blares a different tune,
    And strange, new clothes are worn.
  3. connection
    a relation between things or events
    A valuable connection
    To the universe we share.
  4. errand
    a short trip taken in the performance of a necessary task
    In the sky, clouds exchanged greetings, their language inaudible, while I, on my errand, brought a long list of seeds to the store.
  5. exchange
    give to, and receive from, one another
    In the sky, clouds exchanged greetings, their language inaudible, while I, on my errand, brought a long list of seeds to the store.
  6. timeless
    unaffected by the continuum from the past to the future
    Through timeless books and art,
    I enter and experience
    A life so far apart.
  7. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
    Poets use personification to make objects, animals, or ideas resemble people.
  8. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
    A poem using assonance includes words with the same vowel sound.
  9. consonance
    the repetition of sounds especially at the ends of words
    A poem using consonance includes words with the same middle or final consonant sound.
  10. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
    With imagery, poets use words to create a vivid picture that the reader can imagine.
Created on Wed Jul 08 14:12:59 EDT 2020

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