| A | B |
|---|
| nymph | any of the divinities in mythology represented by a beatiful maiden |
| anthropomorphism | the attribution of human form or qualites to gods or nature |
| murk | gloom, darkness |
| enrich | to make richer by some desirable quality |
| splendors | things with great brightness of luster |
| firmament | the whole vault of the sky |
| suppliant | humbly begging |
| throng | a large crowd of people |
| harried | beset by problems |
| Stygian | of or pertaining to the River Styx |
| Revel | the capital and chief port of Estonia |
| Sordid | dirty, squalid, impure, unpleasant, unethical |
| boon | a bleesing, something that comes as help or comfort |
| pagan | one who has little or no religeous beliefs |
| suckle | to nurture |
| creed | a formal statement |
| lea | an expanse of grassland, a meadow |
| wattles | a framework of interwoven sticks and twigs used to make walls, fences, and roofs |
| linnet | a small songbird with brownish grey or white plumage, a finch |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using as, like or than |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things without using as, like or than |
| personification | giving human qualities to inhuman objects |
| anthropomorphism | the attribution of human form or characteristics to gods or nature |
| alliteration | repitition of the same initial consonant sound in two or more words of a sentence |
| assonance | a similarity of sound between words or syllables, same as alliteration only with vowel sounds |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate a sound |
| hyperbole | a great exaggeration of the truth |
| tone | the author's way of writing towards the subject |
| allusion | reference to something in previous literature or history. Oftentimes, literature will make reference to the Bible |
| dramatic situation | the plot of the poem |
| dramatic irony | the author gives the reader information that the characters don't know |
| verbal irony | when something said is the opposite of what is meant |
| situational irony | when something is done the opposite of what is meant |
| form | the pattern or shape of the poem |
| stanza | a group of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of metrical lengths and a sequence of rhymes |
| rhyme scheme | putting letters at ends of lines |
| scansion | how a poet demonstrates the meter of a poem usind accents to show the stressed syllables |
| feet | the rhythamic unit within a line of verse |
| iamb, iambic | U / |
| anapest, anapestic | U U / |
| meter | the number of feet in a line |
| monometer | 1 foot |
| dimeter | 2 feet |
| trimeter | 3 feet |
| tetrameter | 4 feet |
