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Unit 3 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| confidence | the feeling of being certain or sure |
| shed | to lose fur or skin |
| opinion | a thought or belief about something |
| scatter | to distribute without a pattern |
| resolute | serious or determined |
| advancing | moving forward or coming closer |
| trek | a long, difficult, and demanding journey |
| anaphora | repeated words or phrases at the beginning of many lines of poetry |
| metaphor | a comparison that does not use "like" or "as" |
| alliteration | when a sentence or phrase has many words that begin with the same sound and/or letter |
| onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like what it describes |
| hyperbole | overly exaggerating or making up unrealistic details that can't possibly be true |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| simile | a comparison that uses "like" or "as" |