Vocabulary

• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• literary devices: Techniques that writers use to produce a special effect in their writing.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• cow: Large farm animal from which we get milk and beef
• road: Long piece of hard land for cars to travel on
• clever: Funny in a way that shows intelligence
• write: To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
• eat: To put food in your mouth
• dying: To cease to function or work
• message: Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
• picture: General situation or state of being
• food: What people and animals eat to live
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• talk: Style of speaking
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• person: Man, woman or child
• important: Having power or authority
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• magic: Attractive, appealing, and exciting quality
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• hurt: To cause pain, damage or injury
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• main: Most important; most often used
• call: A order or request for action
• author: Person who writes books, plays, poems etc.
• connect: To associate a thing with something else
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• visualization: Act of creating an image in your mind
• visualize: To create a picture in your mind of something
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• experiment: Test performed to assess new ideas or theories
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• literary: Concerning writers or the profession of writing
• similarity: Degree to which people or things are the same
• imagery: Use of symbolism to help imagine something
• emphasize: To stress the items that are important
• wandering: To move through a place with no particular purpose
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• symbol: Image that means or represents something
• feature: Special report in a magazine or paper
• enhance: To improve; make bigger or better
• imaginative: Able to think of new and interesting ideas
• commonly: Typically, normally; not unusually
• metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
• bleak: Desolate and colorless; without much hope
• explicitly: Clearly; specifically
• handwrite: Write by hand
• elixir: Hypothetical substance supposed to cure all ills
• emblem: Visual sign or symbol of (nation or organization)
• sinful: (Acts that) break a religious law