Key Terms

  • Cadence
  • Civil War
  • Emily Dickinson
  • First Transcontinental Railroad
  • Free Verse
  • Imagery
  • Lyric
  • Meter
  • Rhyme
  • Romanticism
  • Walt Whitman

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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865-Present Copyright © by Amy Berke; Jordan Cofer; Robert R. Bleil; and Doug Davis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.