| Term | Definition |
|---|
| all, every | is the refrain in this poem "ALL" |
| dao | who uses several oxymorons in his poem "all" |
| oxymoron | two words with opposite meanings paired together |
| all | is like also all |
| metaphor | one thing is compared to another |
| who wrote conscientious objector | edna st vincent millay |
| personification | giving human qualities to nonhuman or inanimate things |
| what is going on in cuba and the balkans | business |
| enjambment | the opposite of end stop |
| stanza | in a poem, a group of lines separated by white space |
| figurative language | language in which things on the surface actually represent something else or something deeper |
| literal language | language taken at its common, surface meaning |
| the man in "a man" lost what | his arm |
| who wrote the weary blues | langston hughes |
| nonstandard speech | dialect |
| who wrote jazz fantasia | carl sandburg |
| repeated initial consonant sounds | alliteration |
| who wrote tell all the truth but tell it slant | emily dickerson |
| sensory language | the same as imagery; language that appeals to the five senses: sight, sound, hearing, taste, touch |
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