| A | B |
| impartial | unbiased |
| assert | act forcefully |
| subordinate | secondary; not as important as |
| progressivenes | state of advancing toward better conditions or ideas |
| convential | traditional |
| waver | to hesitate |
| aspire | to desire strongly |
| devious | departing from the straight course |
| anguished | tormented; distressed |
| diverged | branched off |
| lines | poetry is written in these |
| stanzas | lines are grouped into these |
| omniscient | all knowing |
| tone | author's attitude |
| mood | how literature makes you feel |
| third-person | narrator not in the story |
| foreshadowing | hint to future events |
| parallel episode | plot events that are repeated |
| speaker | the "voice" in a poem |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of end rhymes in a poem |