Unit 4: Week 5: Express Yourself

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  1. barren
    providing no shelter or sustenance
    I thought of ice and barren limbs—
    Last winter’s snow so deep!
  2. expression
    the communication of your beliefs or opinions
    James wrote songs as an expression of his beliefs about friendship.
  3. meaningful
    having a purpose
    The students had a meaningful discussion about how to protect the environment.
  4. plume
    the feather of a bird
    Soft plumes of brown pressed in a book,
    The pit of one ripe peach
  5. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
    Some poets write lyric poetry that describes their feelings about nature and seasons.
  6. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
    “Lou’s lamb” shows alliteration because the same consonant sound begins two or more words.
  7. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
    Rita tapped her fingers in rhythm to the meter of the poem as she read it aloud.
  8. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
    In some poems, each stanza may have four lines.
  9. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
    A simile makes a comparison, using the words like or as: "legs like sticks."
  10. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
    A metaphor makes a comparison without using the words like or as: "stick legs."
Created on Wed Jul 08 11:33:17 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Jul 09 14:37:48 EDT 2020)

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