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20 Cards in this Set
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metaphor |
figure of speech used to describe something as if it were something else |
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free verse |
free of traditional structure |
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poplar |
tree of the willow family |
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echolocation |
bat radar |
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author's style |
the way an author puts ideas into words |
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luminous |
giving off light |
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posthumously |
honor given after death |
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suena |
it echoes |
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colloquial language |
conversational and informal words and dialect spoken in a particular region |
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tone |
author's attitude to a subject |
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vignette |
short story captures memorable moment in an author's life |
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Nyrican poet |
Puerto Rican and New York poet |
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Annie Dillard |
Lights in the Night |
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Mark Twain |
What Stumped the Blue Jays |
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May Swenson |
Southbound on the Freeway |
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Victor H. Cruz |
Los New Yorks |
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Mark Van Doren |
The Story Teller |
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Sylvia Plath |
Mushrooms |
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Arna Bontemps |
Southern Mansions |
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Theodore Roethke |
The Bat |
