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ELACCR7.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

Directions: Choose one of the following images. Write a brief poem/prose that describes

the image using only the words in the word bank that appears at the end of this

document. Type your response in the Submission field and submit.

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Phrases with Verbs:

To fly

To swim

To dive into the fire

To ride on the curled clouds

Burst thy wind

Assist the storm

Quit the vessel

Point the tempest

Swim like a duck

Made like a goose

Flamed amazement

Dashed all to pieces

Called forth the mutinous winds

Baked with frost

Stained with grief

Drowning

Sentences:

We run ourselves aground

We split

Tears run down his beard like winter’s drops

This monster make a man

These are devils

Let’s all sink

I have suffered

Smells:

Sweet air

Ignorant fumes

Ancient and fishlike smell

Positive Phrases:

Noble creature

Piteous heart

Magic garment

Providence divine

Spirit

Nymph o’th’sea

Rather like a dream

Saffron wings

My industrious servant

My rich gift

Obedient steel

Honey drops

Rich scarf to my proud earth

A wondered father and a wise

Honorable man

Colors fairer

Sweet sprites

This gallant

Wondrous man

So perfect and so peerless

A cherubin

A thing divine

Islander

Fine spirit

Brave god

Delicate monster

Goddess

Delicate

Fine apparition

Liberty

Negative Phrases:

Torment

Freckled whelp

Hag-born

Dull thing

My slave

Wicked dew

A villain

Thou tortoise

Poisonous slave

Pinched as thick as honeycomb

Filth as thou art

Savage

A thing most brutish

Thy vile race

Swift business

Foolish wench

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Strange beast

Lame beggar

Fins like arms

Your four legs

Monster of the isle

Moon-calf

Direful spectacle

A mark so bloody

Hair up-staring

Foul witch

Blue-eyed hag

Strange fish

Jesting monkey

Sour-eyed disdain

Unnatural though thou art

Foul and muddy

Sounds:

Jingling chains

Roaring, shrieking, howling

When owls do cry

Dread rattling thunder

Some heavenly music

All’s hushed as midnight

A thousand twangling instruments

Hum about mine ears

Marvelous sweet music

Deep and dreadful organ pipe

Harmony of their tongues

A hollow burst of bellowing

A din to fright a monster’s ear

Hear it sing i’ th’ wind

A strange, hollow, and confused noise

Utter foul speeches

Dreadful thunder-claps

Sulphurous roaring

Places:

Unwholesome fen

Fresh springs

Brine pits

Barren place and fertile

This hard rock

The veins of the earth

A prison

The murkiest den

Makes this place paradise

Cloud-capped towers

Gorgeous palaces

On the bat’s back

Time of Day or Night:

By moonshine

As the morning steals upon the night

Melting the darkness

Bedimmed the noontide sun

Foul weather

By a thunderstroke

Fresh morning

Sailing/Ocean Terms:

Topsail

Ooze of the salt deep

Sharp wind of the north

Bold waves

Dread trident

Foaming brine

Mischance of the hour

Rope of his destiny

The approaching tide

Topmast

No stronger than a nutshell

Off to sea

The washing of ten tides

Every drop of water

Brave vessel

Our royal, good, and gallant ship