to attack by surrounding with military forces

suffering severely from hunger or from a lack of something

to annoy, trouble, make weary

lacking skill or appropriateness

to press together

a feeling of fear, doubt or uncertainty

to plunge into a liquid, drench, or extinguish

to condemn openly

to give up, renounce

written information that harms someone else's reputation

happens instantly

profitable

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words

a brief reference to a real or fictional person, place, event, or work of art

the repetition of vowels in a chunk of text

the repetition of consonant sounds in a chunk of text

The author's word choice

the number of syllables in a verse

the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables

The patterns of rhyme created at the end of each line of poetry

Verse the doesn't have a rhyme scheme

A rhyme that occurs inside the line

A word that is spelled how it sounds

The attitude the narrator takes toward the subject