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| poetry | "music without sound" thoughts expressed in words that call up emotions and mental pictures; often using obvious rhythm and rhyme |
| rhythm | balance of sounds, an important part of music and poetry |
| rhyme | words that sound alike |
| imagery | words that make pictures in the reader's mind |
| Rubayyat | a famous, ancient Persian poem about the great questions of life, by Omar Khayyam |
| Omar Khayyam | an ancient Persian philosopher, poet, astronomer, mathematician, creator of the famous poem, The Rubbayyat |
| composed | made |
| lyrical | like music |
| echo | repeat |
| renowned | famous |
| extended | stretched |
| stanzas | the groups oflines of a poem |
| astronomer | one who studies the stars |
| permanently | forever |
| partial | a part of |
| ravages | the damage/harm done to |
| virtually | almost |
| battered | beaten up |
| manuscript | hand written book |
| aroused | waken up |
| fortunate | lucky |
| transform | change |
| worthy | having value |
| version | a copy of |
| attempted | tried |
| literal | word-for-word exact meaning |
| elusive | hidden, kept secret |
| mystical | of the spirit world |
| existence | state of being/in a living form |
| attained | won, arrived at, earned |
| immortality | living forever / never dying |
| masterpiece | the best quality work of an artist |
| Emily Dickinson | American poet who often wrote about death, and wrote about animals in nature in a light-hearted way |
| recluse | someone who doesn't like to be among other people |
| publish | to print writing for sale |
| edit | to make changes in writing |
| poet | one who writes poems |
| Robert Frost | American poet who was inspired by northern American nature |
| The Snake | a poem by Emily Dickinson |
| "Hope" is a thing with feathers | a poem by Emily Dickinson |
| The Road Not Taken | a poem by Robert Frost |
| Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening | a poem by Robert Frost |
| Anabel Lee | a poem by Edgar Allen Poe |
| cinquain | a 5 line style of poem |
| haiku | a Japanese style of poem |
| diamante | a style of poem with the lines forming a diamond shape |
| figures of speech | short phrases or words that create pictures in the reader's mind |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that uses a word to connect the topic of the writing to a different topic in the reader's memory |
| simile | a figure of speech starting with "like" or "as" that compares one topic to a picture in the reader's memory |
