An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

loopholed N : a small or narrow opening, as in a wall, for looking through, for admitting light and air, or, particularly in a fortification, for the discharge of missiles against an enemy outside.
protruded V : to project
adorn V : to make more pleasing, attractive, impressive, etc.; enhance: Piety adorned Abigail's character.
endeavor:to attempt; try: He endeavors to keep things neat in his apartment.
noose N: a tie or bond; snare
heed V : to give attention; have regard.
commingled : to mix or mingle together; combine.
famishing V : to starve to death.

Images:Language which describes something in detail, using words to substitute for and create sensory stimulation, including visual imagery and sound imagery. Also refers to specific and recurring types of images, such as food imagery and nature imagery. (Not all descriptions can rightly be called imagery; the key is the appeal to and stimulation of specific senses, usually visual. It is often advisable to specify the type of imagery being used, and consider the significance of the images themselves, to distinguish imagery from mere description.)

-Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.

-They tore it away and thrust it fiercely aside, its undulations resembling those of a water snake.

-The humming of the gnats that danced above the eddies of the stream, the beating of the dragon flies' wings, the strokes of the water-spiders' legs, like oars which had lifted their boat--all these made audible music. A fish slid along beneath his eyes and he heard the rush of its body parting the water.

-A strange, roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks and the wind made in their branches the music of Æolian harps.

-As he is about to clasp her he feels a stunning blow upon the back of the neck; a blinding white light blazes all about him with a sound like the shock of a cannon