| A | B |
| Abandoned Farmhouse | Ted Kooser |
| Tumbleweed | David Wagoner |
| George Gray | Edgar Lee Masters |
| The Artist | William Carlos Williams |
| Whipping subject | Child abuse |
| End of the World metaphor | circus |
| symbol in George Gray for his life | sailboat |
| Ozymandias topic | vainglory of Kings |
| 2 key elements in poetry | sound and sense |
| figurative language | language that based on comparison not literally true |
| tone | attitude of the writer |
| elegy | poem expressing sorrow over a death |
| meter | pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables |
| free verse | poetry written without any meter or rhyme |
| stress | emphasis on a word or syllable |
| foot | unit consisting of at least one stressed syllable |