Zoo Vocabulary
Zoo Vocabulary
Zoo Vocabulary
Zoo Vocabulary
Poetry Vocabulary
100
the main character of a story

Protagonist

100

to hold tightly or to accept and support someone

embrace

100

admiration (to admiire)

wonderment
100

interested or intrigued by something

fascinated

100

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem

stanza

200

the character who opposes the protagonist

Antagonist

200

an instrument transforming sound into a recording

microphone

200

to say goodbye

farewell

200

children

offspring

200

a set of words that ends for a specific reason, which may include rhythm, meaning, syllable count, pacing, or rhyme

line

300

to be really shocked or scared

horrified

300

in shock, greatly surprised, mesmerized

awe

300

to move quickly or hurry off

scurried

300

implied, not expressed, indirectly, not shown

implicit

300

a repeated word, line, or group of lines that appears at regular intervals throughout a poem

refrain

400
continuously over a period of time, keep repeating, non-stop

constantly

400

year round (yearly)

annual

400

clothing

garments

400

stated clearly and directly

explicit

400

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

personification

500

among the planets

interplanetary

500

first sign of daylight, sunrise, dawn

daybreak

500

commented

remarked

500

conclude using evidence

infer

500

a fundamental poetic device that involves repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.

repetition