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Alliteration use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse Apostrophe A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction Assonance the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words Caesura a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line Conceit a fanciful idea or image, esp. an exaggerated poetic comparison; an extravagant construction Couplet a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse Dissonance a harsh and disagreeable combination, especially of sounds Elegy (elegiac) a mournful poem End-stopped line definite pause at the end of a verse due to punctuation Enjambment the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause Euphony any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds In medias res in the middle of things Meter a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry Ode a poem usually addressed to a particular person, object or event that has stimulated deep and noble feelings in the poet Quatrain a stanza of four lines Rhyme a piece of poetry Stanza a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem volta the shift or point of dramatic change in a poem