Literary and Scientific Terms

A literary device that uses a person, object, word, or situation to represent another thing.

Be an indication of.

Succeed in understanding, interpreting, or identifying something.

A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.

The science that deals with the earth's physical structure and substance, its history, and the processes that act on it.

Preserved to become a fossil.

(Of a person) ready to take offense; easily upset.

With impressive beauty or scale.

Inhale suddenly with the mouth open, out of pain or astonishment.

Extremely small; tiny.