| Name | Term 1 | Term 2 | American Author |
| Machella Caldwell | allegory | actor | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| Stacey Singletary | allusion | alliteration | Ambrose Bierce |
| Victoria Henderson | character | anatagonist | Bret Harte |
| Jennifer Lance | connotation | apostrophe | James Russell Lowell |
| Dawn Oxendine | convention | aside | Sylvia Plath |
| Shana Locklear | denotation | conceit | Phillis Wheatley |
| Ramon Gonzalez | diction | dialect | Anne Bradstreet |
| Jennifer Baker | didactic | director | Edward Taylor |
| MJ Graham | epic | drama | Sarah Orne Jewett |
| Theotis Gibson | femme fatale | fiction | Michael Harper |
| Charla Cobbler | figurative language | free verse | T.B. Thorpe |
| Penny Locklear | imagery | gesture | A.B. Longstreet |
| Jerry Taylor | lyric | Gothic | Mary Wilkins Freeman |
| Andy Stamper | metaphor | hyperbole | Rita Dove |
| Robert Bean | motif | irony | H.P. Lovecraft |
| Eileen Flynn | motivation | naive narrator | Audre Lorde |
| Jennifer Winborne | narrative | personification | William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) |
| Melissa Houghton | narrative poem | play | Adrienne Rich |
| Stephanie White | persona | point of view | Flannery O'Connor |
| Khalil Shakeel | poem | protagonist | Allen Ginsberg |
| Larry Drake | prose | pun | Wallace Stevens |
| Julia Edge | realism | stanza | Elizabeth Bishop |
| Crystal Burnette | simile | soliloquy | Margaret Fuller |
| Susan Severson | theme | short story | Sherwood Anderson |
| Katherine Endriga | terza rima | setting | Jean Toomer |
| Michael Prevatte | sonnet | slant rhyme | Frank Stockton |
| Misty Tarlton | symbol | style | e.e. cummings |
| Nancy Bullard | rhyme scheme | set | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| Ben Stepp | literal language | romance | Katherine Anne Porter |
| Starlet Chavis | parable | unreliable narrator | Philip Freneau |
| Heather Cameron | narrator | tragedy | Zitkala Sa |
| Monica Horne | ballad | couplet | Joel Chandler Harris |
| Sherby Locklear | climax | denoument | George Washington Harris |
| Jacob Gersh | elegy | dramatic monologue | Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur |
| Vonti McCrae | rhyme | epigram | Joy Harjo |
| Rhonda Regenhardt | exposition | epiphany | Wendy Rose |
| Melanie Stephens | flashback | metonymy | Simon Ortiz |
| Deane Wells | refrain | foreshadowing | Louise Erdrich |
| madrigal | heroic couplet | Carter Revard | |
| Becky Davis | myth | satire | Raymond Carver |
| limerick | Linda Hogan | ||
| haiku | Barney Bush | ||
| novelette | Maurice Kenny | ||
| onomatopoeia | Mary Tall Mountain |