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ENGLISH EXAM II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cinquain | five lines |
| Couplet | two lines |
| Sestet | six lines |
| Septet | seven lines |
| Tercet | three lines |
| Octave | eight lines |
| Quatrain | four lines |
| usually suggests hope, renewal, or intellectual illumination | light |
| implies the unknown, ignorance, or despair | darkness |
| gateway to a new world or season in life or mindset | threshold |
| necessary to life and growth; commonly appears as a birth symbol, rejuvenation, and cleansing | water |
| a puzzling dilemma or great uncertainty, search for the dangerous monster inside of oneself | maze |
| symbolizes uncertainty | fog |
| symbolizes a journey, progress, or growth | stairs |
| blood, sacrifice, passion, disorder, violence, lust | red |
| growth, hope, fertility//evil, wickedness | green |
| highly positive, security, tranquility, spiritual purity | blue |
| darkness, chaos, mystery, the unknown, death, wisdom, evil, melancholy | black |
| light, purity, innocence, timelessness//death, horror, supernatural | white |
| enlightenment, wisdom | yellow |
| light, spiritual awareness, unity (holy trinity), male principle | three |
| associated with the circle, life cycle, seasons, female principle earth, nature, elements | four |
| the most potent of all symbolic numbers signifying the union of three and four, the completion of a cycle, perfect order, perfect number, religious symbol | seven |
| sly, cunning, evil, Satan | snake |
| power, Jesus (Lion of Judah) | lion |
| sacrifice purity, Jesus (Lamb of God) | lamb |
| freedom, peace or Holy Spirit (Dove), the exotic (parrot, peacock) | birds |
| can represent clairvoyance, omniscience, and/or a gateway into the soul; commonly associated with intelligence light, vigilance, moral conscience, and truth, looking someone in the eye is a western custom common of symbol honesty | eyes |
| commonly suggest a state of wholeness or unity, they have no beginning and no end, which is representative of eternity; they are an archetypical form representing the sun, the earth, the moon, the universe, and other celestial objects | circle |
| difficulties of life or a difficult season | valleys |
| hurdles to be overcome or the high points in life/victorious views | mountains |
| evil, dangerous | forests |
| paradise or a state of innocence/bliss | garden |
| knowledge | trees |
| beginning of life, youth, childhood, young love, hope | spring |
| youth, passion, lust, tension | summer |
| harvest (abundance/prosperity), middle-age, wisdom | fall |
| dormant, death, distance *coldness"//wonder | winter |