| Term | Definition |
| Directive | Robert Frost |
| Brass Spittoons | Langston Hughes |
| Between the World and Me | Richard Wright |
| Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town | e.e. cummings |
| Eighth Air Force | Randall Jarrell |
| My Papa's Waltz | Theodore Roethke |
| Daddy | Siliva Plath |
| Siren Song | Margaret Atwood |
| The Story of an Hour | Kate Chopin |
| Cannibalism in the Cars | Samuel Clemens |
| The Sheriff's Children | Charles Chestnutt |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkinds-Gilman |
| Barn Burning | William Faulkner |
| A Clean, Well Lighted Place | Ernest Hemingway |
| Sonny's Blues | James Baldwin |
| A&P | John Updike |
| A Late Encounter With the Enemy | Flannery O'Connor |
| Texts | Ursula Leg Guin |
| The Things They Carried | TIm O'Brien |