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.
Here is the complete list of 40 words for Vocabulary Test 3:
- masochist: a person who enjoys receiving pain
- sadist: a person who enjoys inflicting pain
- conspicuous: obvious
- land lubber: a person who spends most of his/her life on land (not at sea)
- misogynist: a person who hates women
- purport: to make a false or questionable claim
- eminence: high placement/elevation or importance in rank
- misanthrope: a person who hates others (mankind/humanity)
- gullible: easily fooled; easily duped
- presumptuous: a person rudely bold; one who goes beyond the limits of what is acceptable
- devious: underhanded; dishonest; cunning
- imbibe: to drink (often alcohol); to absorb ideas--this is a lesser used meaning
- logophile: a lover of words
- flamboyant: loud and showy; attracting attention
- frivolous: lack of seriousness; lack of sense
- plethora: an abundance; and excessive amount
- vile: evil or disgusting
- tommyrot: complete and utter nonsense
- void: the emptiness and lack of life that is space (noun--I'll test you on the noun) OR to cancel--as in a cheque--or to empty--as in one's bladder (verb)
- delirious: confused; hallucinating; in an acutely disturbed state of mind resulting from illness or intoxication and characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech
- profuse: abundant
- tacit: silent agreement or understanding; communicating with looks, not words
- mitigate: to make less severe, less serious, or less painful
- largesse: generosity; bounty
- loom: to hover in a threatening manner (verb)
- lurid: scandalous; sensational
- detrimental: having a bad or negative effect
- intrinsic: extremely important and basic to the nature of a thing/person; in-born
- serendipity: good luck; happy chance
- torrid: blistering hot; passionate
- uxoricide: the act of killing one's wife
- neophyte: an amateur; one who is new to a process, situation, or experience
- slugabed: a lazy person who stays in bed
- austere: plain; unadorned; strict in manner
- mariticide: the act of killing one's spouse
- indubitable: certain; without doubt
- inconnu: an unknown person; a stranger; a foreigner
- nincompoop: a pathetically stupid or foolish person
- sycophant: one who uses flattery to get ahead
- terraqueous: consisting of both land and water
