| A | B |
|---|
| Extended Metaphor | a direct address to an object or to someone who is not present |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or non-human is addressed directly |
| Idyll | a nostalgic work describing a pleasant rural scene or homey setting |
| Caesura | a break in pause in a line of peoetry, which contributes to the rhythm of the poem |
| Rhythm | the arrengment of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Rhyme | The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each ther in a poem |
| Foot | a unit used to measure the meter, or rhythmic pattern, of a line of poetry |
| Blank verse | verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| scansion | the analysis of verse in terms of meter |
| Free Verse | unrhymed verse hat has either no metricl pattern or an irregular pattern |
| Meter | a gererally regular pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables |
| style | the distinctive way in which a writer uses language |
| anecdote | a very breif story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something |
| Allusion | a reference to someone or somethong tha is known from history, literature, religon, etc. the reference is made for the sake of comparison. allusion does not fully describe what they refer to; they hint at it. |
| Rhetorical question | a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer |
| persuation | a form of discourse, which |
| Parallelism | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structure |
| The Chambered Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| The Crisis #1 | Thomas Paine |
| Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| Thanatopsis | William Cullen Bryant |
| The Speech to the Virginia Convention | Patrick Henry |
| Snowbound | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| IronSides | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Cross of Snow | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allen Poe |
| Placid | quiet; calm |
| Amible | likeable; agreeable |
| Torpor | inactive period |
| Conscientious | honest and careful |
| scrupulous | painstaking |
| obsequious | submissive; obedient |
| Malleable | capable of being shaped |
| vehently | emphatically |
| reiterated | repeated |
| fidelity | accuracy |
| effete | sterile; unproductive |
| temporal | worldly |
| pertinent | to the point; applying to the situation |
| encumbrance | burden; hindrance |
| tumultuous | turbulent; stormy |
| incessantly | without stopping |
| derision | contempt; ridiculous |
| superfluous | unnecessary |
| impervious | impenetrable; resistant |
| ethereal | not earthly; nonhuman; spiritual |
| pallid | pale |
| demeanor | behavior; conduct |
| similitude | likeness |
| profuse | abundant |
| equivocal | having more than one meaning |
| stupor | state of mental dullness |
| palpable | obvious; perceivable |
| morbid | diseased; unhealthy |
| sojorn | short stay |
| prodigious | of great size and power |
