BB 5th Grade Unit 4 Vocab

Absurdity

foolishness, stupidity, or senselessness

Allah

Arabic word for God

Anaphora

Anoint

Apostrophe

writing that addresses a person or thing that is not present

ars poetica

a poem about the craft of poetry

Assurance

a promise

Astronomer

scientist who studies outer space and the bodies (such as stars, moons, and planets) in it

Beams

Beast

Blower

Cautious

careful

Content

the words or subject of a piece of writing

Convenient

nearby or easy to find

Copper Beech

Dew

Emblem

a symbol

Entrechats-

dance-like jumps in which the performer taps their feet together quickly while in the air

Evident

clear or obvious

Excerpt

a small part of a larger work; for example, one chapter of a novel or one paragraph of a newspaper article

Exiled

figurative language

words or phrases that mean more than their dictionary definition; similes and metaphors are two examples of figurative language

Figures

numbers or diagrams

Fluster

a confused feeling

Form

free-verse poem

a type of poem that does not use consistent rhyming patterns or follow a specific pattern

Glinting

a sparkling or shining

Idiom

Imagery

descriptive or figurative language that that helps a reader create mental images and connections with the text

Immense

extremely large

implied metaphor

a comparison that is not made directly

Indifferent

uncaring

Joha

Learn’d

shortened version of learned (in which the apostrophe stands in for missing letter e) used to describe people, especially those who have spent many years studying one subject

Lecture

a talk, usually given by a teacher or other expert, on a single topic

Line

in poetry, a group of words in a row

line break

the place where a line ends

Metaphor

a figure of speech in which words typically used to describe one thing are used to describe something else in order to suggest a likeness

Mystical

not of this world

Oar

a long, thin, usually wooden pole with a blade at one end, used to row or steer a boat

Perceive

to understand or see

Perforce

necessarily

Personification

describing nonhuman things as if they had human qualities

Plash

a splash

point of view

Proofs

Pulsing

throbbing rhythmically, like a heart beating

Quatrain

a four-line stanza

Restore

to bring back or return to previous form

Rhyme-

words that end in the same sound or sounds

rhyme scheme

the pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem

Righteousness

the quality of being morally right or having high standards

Rime

Rod

Rue

Seam

Simile

slant rhyme

spread eagle

Staff

Stanza

stanza break

Supposed

Taut

Theme

Tone

Transfixed

intensely focused

Unaccountable

unable to be explained; not expected to take responsibility

Variation

Vast

Villanelle

a poetic form with nineteen lines and a set pattern of repeating lines and rhyming words

Voice

Wake

a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft