Spelling Week 7 // DONE

Question 1

allegory

Answer 1

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden message, typically a moral or a political one.

Question 2

alliteration

Answer 2

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 3

allusion

Answer 3

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. an indirect reference.

Question 4

ambiguity

Answer 4

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.

Question 5

archaic

Answer 5

(of a word or a style of language) no longer in everyday use but sometimes used to impart an old fashion flavour.

Question 6

assonance

Answer 6

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants

Question 7

ballad

Answer 7

poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next.

Question 8

blank verse

Answer 8

verse without a rhyme especially that uses iambic pentameters

Question 9

caesura

Answer 9

a pause near the middle of a line

Question 10

cliché

Answer 10

a phrase or an opinion that is overused and betrays the lack of original thought