"The Feather Pillow" Vocab/Lit. Devices

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Definition: The quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating

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Resonance

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Definition: Gradual, subtle, but harmful effects.

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Insidously

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Condition marked by deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin, causing pallor and weariness.

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Anemia

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Word for 'shouted loudly and insistently':

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Clamored

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Definition: Unable to think or feel properly

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Stupefied

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Word for twilight-related:

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Crepuscular

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Dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest

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Monotonous

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Word for causing dizziness, especially by being very high or steep:

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Vertiginous

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Definition: Extremely or unusually small

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Diminutive

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Literary device in the quote: “She didn’t want her bed touched, not even the pillow plumped.”

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Irony