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| The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. |
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| Mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up. |
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| A feeling that makes one self-conscious and unable to act in a relaxed and natural way. |
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| A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events. |
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| The overall quality of a musical or vocal sound. |
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| A brief evocative description, account, or episode. |
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| An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play. |
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| An essential or urgent thing. |
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| Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. |
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| Directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible. |
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| Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another. |
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| The likelihood of making errors. |
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| A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises. |
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| Cautious and surreptitious action or movement. |
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| A gradual increase in loudness. |
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| Deeply or seriously thoughtful. |
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| Having infinite knowledge. |
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| Judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts |
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| A person or thing that is likely to cause harm. |
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| A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. |
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| The quality of being amoral. |
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| Morally correct behavior or thinking. |
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| Economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories. |
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| The act of positioning close together (or side by side) opposite statements. |
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| The process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter. |
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| Used in ordinary conversation. |
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| Pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur. |
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| The third-person limited is a narrative mode in which the reader experiences the story through the senses and thoughts. |
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| Worthlessness due to insignificance. |
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| The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. |
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| A punctuation mark (') used to indicate either possession. |
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The outer limits or edge of an area or object.
Outside my periphery, I couldn't see anything. |
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Relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Baroque style of music is what we refer to as classical. |
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A length of timber or steel supporting part of the structure of a building.
The joist was strong as steel. |
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