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an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
Allusion
severe mental or physical pain or suffering.
Anguish
give all or a large part of one's time or resources to (a person, activity, or cause).
Devote
feeling or showing envy.
Envious
unable to read or write.
illiterate
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Imagery
extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.
Immense
stay in a place longer than necessary because of a reluctance to leave.
Lingered
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
a decorative design or pattern.
Motif
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
Oxymoron
unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way.
Peculiar
sweat.
perspiration
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Personification
the quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
petulance
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more vivid.
Simile
a completely different line of thought or action.
Tangent
physical or mental effort.
Exertion
a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying.
Melody
serious and immediate danger.
Peril