Vocabulary Notebook

Sonnet #1 definitions:

1. Temperate (adj.) - mild or moderate in climate (not extreme)
2. Lease (noun) - a period of temporary ownership
3. Complexion (noun) - the skin and features of the face 
4. Declines (verb) - moves in downward direction 
5. Untrimmed (adj.) - made or left plain, unadorned or disorderly 
6. Impediments (noun) - things that block or get in the way; obstacles 
7. Alters (verb) - makes different without completely changing 
8. Tempests (noun) - strong or severe storms 
9. Bark (noun) - a small boat 
10. Compass (noun) - range, usually expressed in a curved or circular pattern 
11. Internal Rhyme (noun) - a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next 
12. Alliteration (noun) - a stylistic in which a number of words, having the same fist consonant sound, occur close together in a series 
13. Personification (noun) - a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes, qualities, characteristics, or abilities 
14. Assonance (noun) - takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds 
15. Theme (noun) - a main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly