Unit 2 Vocabulary

2. very unexpected and strange; bizarre
5. a steep, jutting rock or cliff
7. arrangement and style of a poem, that helps determine the structure. Common forms include haiku, limerick, and sonnet
8. pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in a line of poetry.
12. is the pattern formed by the rhyming words at the end of lines.
13. A group of lines within a poem
14. the organization of words and lines in a poem as well as its rhyme scheme and meter.

1. A regular pattern of poetry that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm.
3. the way authors look at a topic or a subject, and their attitude toward it.
4. the author’s reason for writing. Authors typically write for one or more of the following purposes: to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to explain something to readers.
6. to move across a place; to travel through
9. a feeling of thoughtful sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
10. extravagant and impressive
11. in a nonfiction text is the most important point that an author makes about a topic (what is being written about). The statement of this answers the question What’s it all about?