Allusion
Symbols
Atmosphere
Theme
Definitions
100

The title "Cupid's Arrows" by Rudyard Kipling. 

What is the Roman god of love?

100

"...against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony.." (Edgar Allen Poe)

death or the inevitable passage of time towards death

100

A Piece of Chalk

playful

100

The Masque of the Red Death

Death is unavoidable no matter who you are

100
References to persons, places or things outside of a literary work, especially without specifically explaining them

Allusion

200

"And this is the mistake people make about old poet's who lived before Wordsworth...." (from "A Piece of Chalk" by GK Chesterton)

William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate of Victorian era England

200

White

in "A Piece of Chalk" by Chesterton

Virtue

200

The Listeners

mysterious

200

Afterglow

Endings are unnerving, especially when you don't know what is next

200

A person, place, thing or idea within a narrative or poem that means something in addition to itself

Symbol

300

"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night."

1Thess 5:2 "...the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night." or 2Peter 3:10 

300

the Crab "a horrible thing which raced sideways"

"maggie and milly and molly and may"

Fear or some who is fearful

300

The Masque of the Red Death

strange, frightening, grotesque

300

The Progress of Poesy

Creativity is greatest when you're young; then  gradually dries up as you age

300

the overall emotion pervading a work of literature

Atmosphere

400

"Could he on me have breathed with his breath / His gifts, Elias-like, after his death," (from "Sir Francis Drake" by Robert Hayman)

2Kings 2 - Elijah and his successor, Elisha

400

the afterglow of a sunset

(from "Afterglow" by Jorges Luis Borges)

Death or Endings

400

Afterglow

melancholy, uneasy, foreboding

400

A Piece of Chalk

Virtue is not the absence of wrong but a powerful thing of substance in itself

400

the person created by the author to tell the story

Persona

500

"Youth rambles on life's arid mount, / And strikes the rock, and finds the vein / And brings the water from the fount," (from "The Progress of Poesy" by Matthew Arnold)

Moses smiting the rock in Exo 17

500

Water or "the fount"

(in "The Progress of Poesy" by Arnold)

Creativity or creative inspiration

500

The Progress of Poesy

fatalistic and/or pessimistic

500

maggie and milly and molly and may

What one sees in the world and how one responds to it reveals one's personality and character.

500

the attitude of an author toward his or her subject

Tone