Vocabulary 1
This noun describes a shape that winds in a continuous and gradually widening curve, either around a central point or along a line.
What is spiral?
This noun denotes the act of owning or having something.
What is possession?
This is the system that controls all of the body’s activities.
What is the central nervous system?
This is a rare condition in which persons with various developmental disorders, including autistic disorder, have an amazing ability and talent
What is savant syndrome?
This is characterized by its 14 lines, iambic pentameter, and ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme.
What is the Shakespearean sonnet?
This adjective describes something that is balanced and the same on both sides.
What is symmetrical?
This noun describes the natural color, texture, and appearance of a person's skin, especially of the face.
What is complexion?
These are the bones that make up the spine.
What is the vertebrae?
This is a rare neurological mixing of the senses, which most commonly results in the ability to see alphabetical letters and/ or numbers in color.
What is synesthesia?
This phrase opens Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and compares the beloved to a summer's day.
What is "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
This literary device involves using vivid and descriptive language to create mental pictures for the reader.
What is imagery?
This adjective refers to showing moderation or self-restraint; it can also describe a climate that is mild and moderate.
What is temperate?
This transmits messages between the brain and other parts of the body.
What is the spinal cord?
This means multiplying a number by itself a specified number of times.
What is power multiplication?
Sonnet 18 uses this natural phenomenon, described as "too hot" and sometimes "dimm'd," to illustrate the imperfect nature of summer.
What is the sun?
This term refers to the principles of beauty and artistic taste.
What is aesthetic?
This verb means to overwhelm or astonish, often causing someone to be unable to think clearly.
What is boggles?
There are approximately 85 billion of these cells in the brain alone.
What are neurons?
A relatively mild and high-functioning form of autism that affects around 1 in every 300 people in the United Kingdom.
What is Asperger's syndrome?
Sonnet 18 uses this literary device when it says, "Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade," attributing human qualities to Death.
What is personification?
This term refers to the part of the mind that is not fully aware but influences actions and feelings.
What is the subconscious?
This adjective describes something characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion.
What is tempestuous?
The points where neurons meet and transmit information to each other.
What are synapses?
This is the ability to tell what day of the week a particular date fell or will fall on.
What is calendrical calculation?
This is the central theme of Sonnet 18, focusing on the enduring quality of the beloved's beauty and the power of poetry.
What is immortality through verse?