List 8

Question 0

Portentous

Answer 0

Adj.

Ominous

Question 1

Assail

Answer 1

Verb.

To assault or attack

Question 2

Privy

Answer 2

Adj.

Secretive

Question 3

Invulnerable

Answer 3

Adj.

Impossible to harm or damage

Question 4

Auspicious

Answer 4

Adj.

Favoring to be successful

Question 5

Litote

Answer 5

A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement.

Ex: “not bad” as a way of saying “done well”

Question 6

Loose sentence

Answer 6

A complete sentence that states its main idea before the end

Ex: “the children ran as if being chased by demons”

Question 7

Lyric

Answer 7

Originally designated poems meant to be sung to accompaniment of a lyre; now any short poem in which the speaker express is intense personal emotion rather than describing a narrative or dramatic situation.

Question 8

Meter

Answer 8

The more or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable’s in a lot of poetry. This is determined by the kind of “foot” (Iambic or dactylic, for example) and by the number of feet per line (5 feet = Pentameter, 6 feet = Hexameter, for example).

Question 9

Metonymy

Answer 9

It figures speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something