Week 1
A human-made object, usually from a particular period in history
What is an artifact?
Ideas or discussion about why something has happened or might happen
What is speculation?
A person, place, or object that is unusual and interesting
What is exotic?
the lower overhanging edges of a roof
What are eaves?
a person who is lonely and miserable might also be described as this
What is forlorn?
Something that is shared by a group
What is communal?
When you are seeking to accomplish a goal
What is aspiring?
A small space set back in a wall or room
What is an alcove?
an advantage
What is a benefit?
when you do something to honor or remember something
What is commemorate?
Something that can be traced back to its origin
What is derived?
The basis on which something is developed
What is foundation?
The buying and selling of products to make money
What is commerce?
something that is done in a skillful, quick, and clever way
What is deftly?
to think about something seriously for a long time
What is contemplate?
Something that is written, engraved, carved, or painted as a lasting record.
What is an inscription?
Something that came before something else
What is preceded?
Anything that is related to family or life at home
What is domestic?
ridicule or a lack of respect
What is derision?
something that is grand and impressive
What is majestic?
A period of 1,000 years.
What is a millennium?
The part of something that is the most important
What is principal?
Someone who speaks or writes a language well
What is fluent?
a person who has mastered a skill is described as having this
What is expertise?
poetry that has a songlike quality and expresses the speaker's thoughts and feelings
What is lyric poetry?
Writing paper or envelopes
To help grow or progress an idea
What is promote?
Suffocating or extremely close
What is stifling?
something handed down from the past
What is a legacy?
a 14-line poem that expresses a single, complete thought
What is a sonnet?
To use something
To limit or confine something
What is restrict?
a major or sudden change that often creates problems or distress
What is upheaval?
beauty and balance in shape and appearance
What is symmetry?
the pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
The amounts or quantities of something produced or grown, such as crops
What is yields?
To have resisted or held out against something
What is withstood?
What is utmost?
behavior that is rude, bold, or disrespectful
What is impudence?
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
What is meter?