"Formation"
The sonnet form used by Claude McKay in his "If We Must Die"
Shakespearean
"She would have been a good woman if there had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life."
O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Cather's "Paul's Case"
Third Person
A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark
End-Stopped
The song Kathy danced to with her "baby"
"Never Let Me Go"
The sonnet form with an octave and a sestet used by Kennedy in his "Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought"
Italian or Petrarchan
"It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for."
Hopkins's "Spring and Fall"
Carver's "Cathedral"
First Person
A line of poetry that does not end with a punctuation mark
Enjambed Line
Where lost things go
Norfolk
The type of poem used to praise things like Grecian urns
Ode
"In the early morning on the lake, sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."
Hemingway's "Indian Camp"
Updike's "A & P"
Sammy - First Person
Latin for "Seize the Day"
Carpe Diem
Madam's Gallery
It's an "art" to use this fussy french form that insists on repetition to make its point.
Villanelle
"The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace."
Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Third Person
When a seemingly straightford statement is undermined by its context. "Look on my works ye mighty and despair" - This line from Shelley's "Ozymanidias" is a great example.
Irony
A clone's first job
Trethewey uses this reflective form in her "Myth"
Palindrome
"She can run if she want to and even run faster. But ain't nobody gonna beat me at nuthin."
Bambara's "The Lesson"
Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
First Person Plural
"An evil intelligence determined on their own supremacy"
The Devil, according to Flannery O'Connor
Term for what typically happens after the fourth donation
Completing