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Omnivore's Dilema: vocabulary #1

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Vocabulary: Shakespeare Sonets 18 & 116

Temperate: (adj) mild or moderate in climate

-by the ocean 

Lease: (noun) period of ownership

-Maria and her cars

Complexion: (noun) the skin or features of the face

Declines: (verb) moves in a downward direction

-Grandpa Bob

Untrimmed: (adj) made or left plain; diorderly

-brown dress

Impediments: (noun) obstacles; things that block or get in the way

-Brick wall

Alters: (verb) makes different without changing

-Hemming pants

Tempests: (noun) Strong or severe storms 

-Hurricane

Bark: (noun) small boat

Compass: (noun) range, usually expressed in a circular motion

Internal rhyme: a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

-Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

Alliteration: a stylistic device in which many words of the same sounding first consonant are all close together

-She sells sea shells by the sea shore

Personification: (noun) figure of speech in which a thing, idea, or animal is given humanlike characteristics

-the bird greeted his friend the squirrel with a joyous grin

Assonance: (noun) when two or more words of similar sound repeat the same vowel but not the same consonant

Theme: (noun) the main idea or underlying meaning of a text that may not have been directly stated

-Romeo and Juliet: romance atragedyety