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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| isinglass | an opaque substance from swim bladder of a fish |
| venerable | accorded a great deal of repect because of age/wisdom/character |
| dramatic | sudden or striking |
| entrails | internal organs |
| tarnished | having lost its shine |
| sullen | bad tempered |
| free verse | poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| irony | a contrast between what is generally expected and what has actually happened |
| personification | giving human traits to a inhuman object or animal |
| objection | the action of treating someone or something to the status of a mere object or less |
| afix | an additional element placed at beggining/end of a root,stem,or word,or in the body to change its meaning |
| prefix | an element placed at the beggining of a word to change its meaning |
| suffix | an element placed at the end of a word to change its meaning |