Poetry Terms Master List
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alliteration | the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. "Peter Piper picked" |
| allusion | a reference in a work of literature to a well-known historical event, person, or literature: "D'oh," Homer Simpson |
| apostrophe | addressing an abstract quality, or a nonexistent person. "Oh Love, why are you so cruel?" |
| assonance | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. "Acid acts" |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones: "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves" |
| caesura | a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse: "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England" |
| consonance | the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words when it is not the initial letter. "The tide rises, the tide falls" |
| couplet | a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same. |
| diction | word choice conveys connotation: "juice" vs. "grease" |
| elegy | a poem about death or another sad theme. |
| end stopped | a line with a pause at the end. "glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head." |
| enjambment | the continuation of a line topic from one line of poetry to the next. "I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are; the want of which vain dew" |
| extended metaphor | a comparison which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem with out using like or as |
| slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is a different pronunciation: "soul/all" |
| figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language) such as metaphor, personification, and simile. |
| free verse | poetry which is not rhymed or written in a traditional meter but can still be rhythmical. |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| irony | when the opposite of what you would expect occurs: Fahrenheit 451 |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end: "Right after tonight is when I prepare" |
| metaphor | a comparison is expressed without "as," "like," or "than." |
| meter | the repetition of a regular rhythm in a line of poetry. |
| octave | an eight-line stanza |
| oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression: "palm to palm is holy palmer's kiss" |
| parallelism | a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry |
| personification | gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics: "the trees danced" |
| pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have diff. meanings: "soul/ sole" |
| quatrain | a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes |
| refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
| rhyme | words that sound the same at the end or middle of a line of poetry |
| scansion | a system for describing the meter of a poem by identifying the number and the type(s) of feet per line |
| simile | comparing two objects, usually with "like," "as," or "than." |
| sonnet | normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem. It usually presents a dilemma and solution |
| stanza | a grouping of lines |
| style | the characteristic manner of expression of an author |
| symbol | something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else: "dove"="peace" |
| syntax | The ordering of words into patterns or sentences. Always read your poem to the punctuation if there is any!!! |
| theme | the main thought expressed by a work. In poetry, it is the abstract concept which is made concrete through its representation in person, action, and image in the work |
| tone | the attitude of the speaker towards their subject |
| understatement | the opposite of hyperbole. It is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is. |
| auditory imagery | words in a work that depict hearing: "birds chirp" |
| gustatory imagery | words in a work that depict taste: "salty" |
| tactile imagery | words in a work that depict touch: "sticky" |
| visual imagery | words in a work that depict sight: "radiant" |
| olfactory imagery | words in a work that depict smell: "acrid" |
| foot | a unit of accented and unaccented syllables |
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