Category: Writing

20 unusual words

  • Bridegrooms: A man on his wedding day or just before and after the event.
  • Eftoons : Once again; another time.
  • Harbour :A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
  • Bassoon : A double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family.
  • Emerald : A strong yellowish green.
  • Dismal :(Of a person or their mood) gloomy.
  • Fiends :An evil spirit or demon.
  • Parched : Make or become dry through intense heat. Extremely thirsty.
  • Agony : Extreme physical or mental suffering. The final stages of a difficult or painful death.
  • Orphan : A child whose parents are dead. Make (a child) an orphan.
  • Albatross : A very large, chiefly white oceanic bird with long, narrow wings, found mainly in the southern oceans.
  • Helmsman : A person who steers a ship or boat.
  • Soot : A deep black powdery or flaky substance consisting largely of amorphous carbon, produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter.
  • Morrow : The following day
  • Scarce : (Especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand.
  • discerned : recognize or find out.
  • skiff :a light rowing boat or sculling boat, typically for one person.
  • owlet : a small owl found chiefly in Asia and Africa.
  • perchance : by some chance; perhaps.
  • dungeon : by some chance; perhaps

Rhyme of the ancient mariner

Question :

What effects does Samuel Taylor Coleridge creat using sound devices in the poem?

Answer :

Samuel Taylor Coleridge uses rhyme  in the line “And we did speak only to break ” They are two rhyme ,They are speak and break . When it said “down dropt the breeze the sails dropped down ” I think that the boat was was going slower and slower because the wind is stopping.