| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Figurative language | "My life closed twice before it closed--It yet remains to see if immortality unveil a thrid event to me. |
| Allusion | "Oh, Captain My Captain!" Author alludes to Abraham Lincoln |
| Imagery | "The Brain is wider than the sky" The brain is not actually the size of the sky |
| Free verse | " A child said What is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands..." Because it does not rhyme. |
| Refrain | "The Brain is wider than the sky" It keeps repeating at the beginning of every stanza. |
| Symbolism | Unmoved, she notes the chariots. Why- Chariots symbolize death. |
| Mood | "I heard a buzz fly when I die the stillness in the room was like the stillness in the air, between the heaves of storm. Mood-sad. |
| Slant rhyme | "Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality. Why-Similar but not identified words. |
| Figurative language | The Carriage held just ourselves and Immortality. |
| Imagery | Water is taught by thrist. Land by the oceans passed. Transport by throw, pace by it battles told, love by Memorials mold. |
| Free verse | I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Walt Whitman |
| Refrain | swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home. Song- |
| Symbolism | There is a certain slant of light winter afternoons that opresses, like the Heft of Cathedral tunes. |
| Mood | I heard a fly buzz when I died... sadness |
| Slant rhyme | The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality and slowly drove. Emily Dickinson |
| Romanticism is | a literary and artistic movement of the 19th century that believed in imagination, emotion, nature and individuality. |
| Spritual | a type of African American folk songs dating from the period of slavery and reconstruction. |
| Non-fiction | prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects or events. |
| Style | a writer's style includes word choice, tone, degree of formality, figurative language, rhythm, grammatical structure, sentence length, organization. |
| Image | something you can see, smell, taste, touch or hear. |
| Third person point of view | the narrator stands outside the action and is not usually a story character. They become "all knowing". |
| Narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story. |
| Short story | a brief work of fiction. |
| Image example from Devil and Tom Walker | "The stranger, who carries an ax on his shoulder is not a Native American or African American but he is very dark, as if covered with soot. |
| Third person point of view example= | The Devil and Tom Walker |
| Narrator example | speaker or character telling the story. |
| Short story example- | The Devil and Tom Walker |
| What is the mood of "Psalm of Life" poem | happy, uplifting |
| How many stanzas and what types are they in "Psalm of Life" poem? | 5 stanzas, quantrain |
| What is an autobiography? | A person's or writers account of his or her own life. |
| Non-fiction is a | true story about many characters and events. |
| Difference between poems and short stories? | poems have rhymes, repetition, stanzas, short story is a brief work of non-fiction. |
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