Glossary of terms Unit 4 Week 5

Vocabulary Strategy- Spelling Skill-

Poetry Terms Variant vowel o
1. attain- To attain something 1. caught
means to work hard to achieve a 2. alter
goal. 3. caller
2. dangling- Dangling means 4. laws
hanging or swinging loosely. 5. halt
3. hovering- A hovering object 6. drawn
stays in one place in the air. 7. cough
4. triumph- When something is a 8. squall
triumph it is a great victory or 9. talking
success. 10. strawberry
5. stanza- A stanza is two or more 11. walker
lines of poetry that together 12. fought
form a unit of the poem. 13. straw
6. repetition- Poets who repeat 14. chalk
words or phrases in a poem are 15. thought
using repetition. 16. awe
7. connotation- The connotation of 17. stalk
the word is a meaning suggested 18. false
by a word in addition to its 19. shawl
literal meaning. 20. small
8. denotation- Denotation is the
basic definition of the word.