Poe
Military academy where Poe dropped out of
West Point
Comparing using like or as
Simile
Lines in a sonnet
14
Robert Herrick believed that young individuals needed to do one thing to live a fulfilling and rich life
Marry
Author who wrote about a poor Mexican family in the Gulf of Mexico, where they find "The Pearl of the World."
John Steinbeck
Name of the wife in "The Raven"
Lenore
The repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
The external rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
An individual who influenced Walt Whitman
Abraham Lincoln
Device used to describe someone who is trying to persuade you using emotions
Pathos
The Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic battle. Seen in "The Raven"
Pallas
Unified group of lines in poetry
Stanza
Ten syllables per line in a Shakespearean Sonnet is referred to as an
Iambic Pentameter
A structure of a poem that rises and falls throughout the stanza, like in Miniver Cheevy
Sighing structure
Caesars best friend who betrays him
Brutus
Type of writing that focuses on the darker side of the human psyche.
Gothic Romanticism
Central meaning behind the text
Theme
Type of conflict mostly seen in "The Raven"
Man vs. Self
First performance given at The Globe Theater
Julius Caesar
Nights Plutonion Shore refers to where?
The Underworld
A brief reference to another piece of work
Allusion
The measured arrangement of
sounds/beats in a poem, including
the poet’s placement of emphasis
and the number of syllables per line.
Meter
Writing that directly follows a claim in a research paper
Evidence