English 10, Period 5

For homework, bring in two copies of one of your extended metaphors that we wrote in class.  Make sure you have at least 3 points of comparison in your extended metaphor.  You need to make sure that you are comparing an emotion to an animal.  Here is an example:

Anger is a panther.  

It focuses on its prey; stalks it silently.  Then with an ear-splitting roar, it pounces, tearing its victim from limb to limb.  It will be satisfied only when it can walk away from the bloody pulp of its enemy.

1. serendipity: good luck; happy chance
2. adjacent:  next to; adjoining
3. atrocious: especially vicious or repellant
4. detrimental: something which creates a bad or negative effect
5. opportune: well-suited and well-chosen timing
6. ailurophile: cat lover
7. oblivious: totally unaware
8. ebullience:  bubbly enthusiasm
9. fabricate:  to make; invent
10. to loom: to hover over someone/something in a threatening manner
11. espionage:  the act of spying, involving countries or corporations/industries
12. vicinity:  area
13. redistribution:  the act of sharing something between people in a different way
14. abibliophobia:  the fear of running out of books to read
15. jubilation:  extreme happiness; great rejoicing
16. intrepid:  fearless
17. cantankerous:  testy; cranky; bad-tempered
18. feral:  savage; wild
19. lurid:  shocking; sensational
20. intrinsic:   extremely important and basic to the nature of a thing/person; in-born
21. misogynist:  a person who hates women
22. misanthrope:  a person who hates humanity; avoids human society
23. sadist:  a person who enjoys inflicting pain on others
24. masochist:  a person who enjoys receiving pain
25. profuse:  abundant
26. tacit:  silent agreement or understanding; communicating with looks, not words
27. mitigate:  to make less severe, less serious, or less painful
28. largesse:  generosity; bounty
29. purport:  to make a false or questionable claim
30. torrid:  blistering hot; passionate
31. uxoricide:  the act of killing one's wife
32. neophyte:  an amateur; one who is new to a stiuation, experience, or process
33. slugabed: a lazy person who stays in bed all day
34. tommyrot:  utter nonsense
35. austere:  plain; unadorned; strict in manner
36. argle-bargle:  meaningless talk
37. solicitous:  eager; anxious to do something for someone else; showing great care/worry for another person
38. chronic:  something which lasts a long time; constantly recurring
39. cryptic:  hard to understand; has a secret meaning
40. riven:  cracked or split in two; broken violently