Evening Solace vocabulary

By Cecilia Brabin | June 29, 2010

In the poem, Charlotte Bronte uses several words which describe the emotion that her poem is intended to evoke. The following table contains some of those words and their meaning in the context of this poem.

solace – comfort when sad or distressed

illusion – false belief

musing – thinking about something for a long time

languish – suffer neglect or hardship

woe – grief

anguish – great mental pain

recede – move to more distant place

solemn – deeply sincere / serious

Return to the poem

 

1. [Match]

Evening Solace vocabulary

Answers for Quiz [1].

  • 1. The hurt will recede (correct)
  • 2. We were full of woe (correct)
  • 3. We were seeking solace (correct)
  • 4. It was a solemn occasion (correct)
  • 5. I was musing over the matter a long time (correct)
  • 6. It was an illusion (correct)
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