| Term | Definition |
| A wind has blown the rain away | e. e. Cummings |
| The Alchemist | Louis Bogan |
| Because I could not stop for death | Emily Dickinson |
| Buffalo Bill's | e.e. Cummings |
| Come up from the Fields, Father | Walt Whitman |
| Conscientious Objector | Edna st. Vincent Millay |
| Do not go gentle into that good night | Dylan Thomas |
| Gretel in Darkness | Louise Gluck |
| Metaphors | Sylvia Plath |
| Nothing gold can stay | Robert Frost |
| One wants a teller in a time like this | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Out, Out | Robert Frost |
| The poet and his songs | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Richard Cory | Edward Arlington Robinson |
| The Snow on Saddle Mountain | Gary Snyder |
| Sonnet 29 | William Shakespeare |
| Stone | Charles Simic |
| There will come soft rains | Sara Teasdale |
| The Writer | Richard Wilbur |
| Caged Bird | Maya Angelou |
| The Courage That My Mother Had | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| The Funeral | Gordon Parks |
| Making a Fist | Naiomi Shihab Nye |
| The Poet and His Songs | Paul Lawrence Dunbar |
| Richard Cory | Paul Simon |
| Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil | Jean Shepherd |
| Harrison Bergeron | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Lady or the Tiger | Frank R. Stockton |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| The Most Dangerous Game | Richard Connel |
| The Necklace | Guy de Maupassant |
| The Scarlet Ibis | James Hurst |
| The Sniper | Liam O'Flaherty |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce |
| Sweet Potato Pie | Eugenia Collier |