Wow Words. List of Vocabulary for the Test on 10/1

Wow words. List of Vocabulary for the Test on 10/1/ Adjectives Nouns Verbs Adverb desirable tendency Prestige contemporary occurrence accustomed to Adversely affect. A flaw compelling appealing incredible unearth outstanding stunning glorious rare astonishing harsh severe incomprehensible abundance meticulous innovative

Expressions. 1. in response to. 2. it is the exception rather than the rule 3. raise awareness for 4. Research has shown 5. impose a limitation. 6. since the dawn of civilization

Good Acceptable, admirable, commendable, praiseworthy, virtuous, accomplished, skilled, bad Defective, erroneous, inadequate, substandard, corrupt, vile, distressing, severe, offensive, immoral thing Material object, article, concept, entity, apparatus, device, detail, statement, items. Big Considerable, colossal, immense, sizable, vast, eminent, influential, paramount, prime, prominent Small Diminutive, immature, minute, slight, negligible, petty, trivial,limited. important Far-reaching, grave, momentous, significant, substantial, prominent, notable happy Content, joyous, jubilant, thrilled, advantageous, favorable, fortunate, sad Sorrowful, cheerless, dismal, gloomy, melancholy, mournful, somber grievous

Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson.

In the poem, the poetess takes an abstract idea and makes it concrete through the use of figurative language.

She says that ______is like a bird that exists in the soul and sings a melody______words.

When ______is a storm within a person’s heart, namely he is about to lose ______, the singing of the bird is the sweetest thing that can ______heard. It seems that a ______in the person’s soul must be very rough in order to defeat that little bird that keeps so many people ______. Thus, according to the poem, it is very difficult to deprive a person of hope that naturally______in his heart, no matter how ______his condition may be.

The poetess goes on to say that she has heard the ______of this bird everywhere – in the chilliest land and on the ______sea. ______this singing is only capable of giving. It never asks for anything in ______, not even in extreme ______.

Do you think the metaphor of comparing hope to a bird is a successful one? Explain your answer.