C2 · Mastery
Poetic Diction & Verse Analysis
Explore poetic vocabulary and terms for verse and dramatic form, relating a formal feature to its effect in a text.
Start learning this unitOne account. Your progress, on the web and in the app.
- Words & phrases
- 49
- Lessons
- 2
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
A preview of what you’ll master
Words you’ll make your own.
Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- melancholy, heaviness of spirit
- a romantic infatuation, a starry-eyed reverie
- desire, longing, craving
- to become infatuated with, to be smitten by
- desire, yearning, lust
- a yearning, a restless striving
- to hanker after, to aspire to
- bliss, felicity, blessed joy
- joyful, delightful, full of glee
- rapture, a state of being carried away
- captivating, breathtaking
- woe, lamentation, misery
- absorbed, lost in thought or reverie
- wondrous, marvelous
- enchanting, bewitching
- to enchant, to bewitch
- sorcery, magic, spellcraft
- to imbue with soul, to animate
- inspired, animated with feeling
- the red glow of sunset
- a starry sky, the firmament of stars
- a vast open expanse, a wide moorland
- a gust or breath of wind
- a gentle waft of air, a light breeze
- to quiver, to tremble faintly
- to tremble, to quake
- glowing, ardent, fervent
- to fade away, to vanish gradually
- to sparkle, to gleam (of stars or eyes)
- a bard
- blank verse
- free verse
- a couplet
- a metrical foot
- an iambic meter
- a rhyme scheme
- an elegy
- an epigram
- an epithet
- a haiku
- an aphorism
- assonance
- consonance
- a caesura
- a catharsis
- a peripeteia
- to elevate
- to embody
- to purify
Danish words, pronunciation, and practice are waiting inside your learning account.
Understand the why
Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Poetic and Literary Diction
- Lesson 2
Preserving a Literary Voice
Where this unit fits
Courses with this unit.
Style and Register
Adapt your style and register to any audience, from a formal speech to a literary text.
7 Units · about 5 h
Mastery · Part 2
Work through the vocabulary, lessons, conversations and reading activities in this part. Practice grammar along the way.
27 Units · about 18 h
Your next conversation starts here
Make these words part of your Danish.
Create your Hejly account to start learning, hear Danish pronunciation, and build confidence with practice that fits your day.
Start learning this unitOne account. Your progress, on the web and in the app.