| A | B |
| Industrialization has created | a wasteland |
| People became more | violent |
| Negative effects of the | American Dream |
| Women and Minorities | considered unimportant |
| Loss of | Morals |
| Life was in | Disorder |
| Ignorance as a tool of | slavery |
| Slavery damages | slaveholders |
| Dehumanization | of slaves |
| Female slaves | victimized |
| Belief that forces are working against humans | Naturalism |
| Anaphora | Repetition of beginning words in lines of poetry |
| Parallelism | Sentences structured in the same way |
| Common meter | Contains lines of either 6 or 8 syllables |
| Free verse | No structure to lines of poetry |
| Slant rhyme | Almost rhymes |
| Dashes | Favorite punctuation of Emily D. |
| Old Money | Wealth has been in the family for several generations |
| New Money | Wealth accumulated within the person's life |
| Musical tradition used in HR | Blues tradition |