| A | B |
|---|
| Franklin | wrote "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
| aphorism | a short, memorable saying |
| anastrophe | inversion of usual word order |
| Henry | Said "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
| Paine | Wrote "The Crisis" |
| Paine | compared the king to a robber |
| Paine | Wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls..." |
| heroic couplets | pair of rhymed lines using iambic pentameter |
| Wheatley | first published black poet |
| Equiano | Wrote a slave narrative |
| hyperbole | using exaggeration. |
| figurative language | language not meant to be taken literally |
| rhetorical question | a question to which no answer is expected |
| Eat | What Equiano was afraid the whites would do to him. |
| meter | cadence |
| foot | a unit of poetry |
| allusion | reference in a work of literature to something outside of the work |
| maxim | synonym for aphorism |
| dichos | similar to aphorisms |
| Henry | spoke to the Virgina Convention |
| ten | number of syllables in a line of iambic pentameter |
| five | number of units in a line of iambic pentameter |
| two | number of syllables in a foot |
| feet | units of poetry |
| Franklin | wanted to achieve moral perfection |
