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| poem that tells a story such as "The Raven" |
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| started the transcendental club and wrote the popular essay "self reliance" |
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| Tom Walker refuses this job title. |
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| A story in which a character, an object, and events represent abstract ideas. |
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| a group of lines that form a poetic unit. |
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| Henry David Thoreau's account of his experiment of simple living in a hut. |
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| Similarity of sound within a poetic line. |
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| Technique that presents ideas of equal importance with the same grammatical form |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| most famous poet of the 1800s with a career that spanned over 50 years |
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| Belief basded on idea one is capable of a higher truth through intuition. |
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| a short work of nonfiction about a single subject that presents writer's views |
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| disease that killed 25 million Europeans in the mid 14 th century |
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| a writers use of hints or clues to indicate events taht will occur later |
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| poetry without regular patterns of rhyme or rhythm. |
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| a brief statement that expresses a general principle about life. |
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| form of poetry that follows certain fixed rules of rhyme, rhythm and line length |
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| a four line poetic stanza |
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| metrical pattern with four pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| Pattern of rhyming words at the end of poetic lines |
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| repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of poetic lines |
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| form of poetry, also known as irregular form that takes shape from content. |
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| use of frequent lists of people, objects and attributes |
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| Tom Walker's job title for the devil |
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| owner of the buried treasure that tempts Tom Walker |
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