Poetry Week 3

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Glimmer

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To shine faintly with a wavering light.

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Elaborate

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Involving many, carefully arranged parts or details; detailed and complicated in design and planning.

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Foremost

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Most prominent in rank, importance, or position; in the first place.

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Hesitate

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To pause before saying or doing something, especially through uncertainty.

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Miniscule

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Extremely small; tiny.

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Poetry

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A form of literary art that uses the aesthetic qualities of language, including sound and rhythm, to evoke meanings.

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Stanza

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A grouped set of lines within a poem, often sharing a common rhyme scheme.

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Rhyme

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The repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, often used at the end of lines in poetry.

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Imagery

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates mental images.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.