| Term | Definition |
| Assailable | Adj.- Able to be mastered or overtaken |
| Posterity | Noun- Future or succeeding generations |
| Clemency | Noun- Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person administering justice |
| Deftly | Adverb- With skill and style |
| Palpable | Adj.- Capable of being perceived |
| Assay | Verb- To examine or analyze |
| Elucidate | Verb- To make something clear and understandable; to shed light on something |
| Manifest | Verb- Clearly revealed to the mind, the senses, or judgement |
| Nuance | Noun- A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude |
| Dissonant | Adj.- Lacking in harmony |
| Tenet | Noun- A principle or belief honored by a person or a group of people |
| Albatross | Noun- 1. A great white sea bird native to the Southern hemisphere
2. A constant, worrisome burden |
| Rhyming couplet | Two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought |
| Declamation | The re-giving of an important or famous speech |
| Elocution | An expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture |
| Transition | A word or phrase that provides a connection between ideas, sentences, or paragraphs |
| Poetry | Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning sound and rhythm |
| Nomenclature | The body or system of names in a particular field; the term of terms applied to something |
| Form | The physical structure of a poem including length of lines, rhyme scheme, repetition |
| Rhyme Scheme | Pattern of rhyme indicated by lowercase letters |
| Stanza | Group of lines making up a single unit |
| Speaker | The narrative voice in the poem, not necessarily the author |
| Romanticism | A movement in literature and fine arts in the early 19th century that stressed personal emotion, imagination, and freedom from rules of form |
| Dis | Apart |
| Sonare | To sound |
| Nom | Name |
