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1 Fireside Poets and Dickinson
Poetry Terms Fireside Poets and Dickinson

2 Directions Define each word.
Leave space for an example of each. DO NOT write the example provided with the definition. All definitions are in the literary terms section in the back of the literature book. You may also refer to Friday’s notes for a couple of these.

3 Terms Meter Alliteration Blank verse Figurative language Mood Idyll
Foot iamb Iambic trimeter Iambic tetrameter Iambic pentameter Mood Personification Petrarchan sonnet Rhyme Slant rhyme Sonnet stanza Alliteration Blank verse Figurative language Idyll Imagery Lyric poem Metaphor

4 Poets and Poems Fireside Poets (275-282) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls The Arsenal at Springfield The Children’s Hour The Cross of Snow William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides John Greenleaf Whittier Snowbound Emily Dickinson ( ) Because I could not stop for Death I heard a Fly buzz—when I died There’s a certain slant of light My life closed twice before its close The Soul selects her own Society The Brain—is wider than the Sky There is solitude of space Water, is taught by thirst

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