Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair


Edgar Allan Poe
An American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

The Raven
A narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.

American Dream
A national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

La Belle Dame sans Merci
A ballad written by the English poet John Keats. It exists in two versions, with minor differences between them.

Alliteration
A stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of a phrase.

French Leave
To leave or disappear without letting your party know you're leaving.
 
Mexican Standoff
A situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner. A poor man's Mutally Assured Destruction

Greek to me
Something said is not understandable. They might as well be speaking Greek, assuming you don't speak Greek.

Indian giver
A person who gives someone something, then wants it back.

Go Dutch
When you go an a date and everyone pays separately

de-: down
e.g.: depressed, deject, depreciate

auto-: self
e.g.: automobile, automatic, autonomy

eva-:spread, estimate
e.g.:evaluation, evacuation, evaporation

-graphy: write
e.g.: biography, geography, calligraphy