Unit One

4. a group of lines that stand as one unit in a poem
8. the high point of action in a story
10. hints to what will happen later in the story
12. movie about a mother and her two children who ended up being ghosts
13. comparing two unlike things using like or as
14. the ending of the story when the conflicts are resolved
15. literature with tortured characters, strange events, and remote settings
16. when a poem has no set rhyme scheme
19. Holiday associated with fear and scaring people
21. Writer of "The Raven"
22. giving human qualities to non-human things

1. an exaggeration for humor or emphasis
2. the repetition of the same consonant sound as the beginnings of words close to one another
3. symbol of the narrator's sadness in Poe's most famous poem
5. a type of poem that tells a story
6. type of Gothic literature that has normal characters and setting, and life is interrupted by disturbing events
7. half-man, half-animal that was fabled to kill people who did not obey rules
9. where and when a story takes place
11. the moral or lesson of the story
17. the pattern of rhymes in a poem
18. the struggle or problem in the story
20. when there is a contradiction between what appears to be and what really is