| Term | Definition |
|---|
| euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate words |
| sibilance | hissing sounds represented by s, z, sh |
| apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply |
| elegy | poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme |
| connotation | what a word suggests beyond its surface definition |
| denotation | basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| couplet | two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work |
| enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line |
| meter | regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approx. equal intervals of time |
| refrain | repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a pattern |
| rhyme | repetition of end sounds |
| anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines |
| conceit | an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor |
| hyperbole | exaggeration, overstatement |
| imagery | representation through language of a sensory experience |
| irony | incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational |
| metonymy | symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House) |
| pace | tempo or rate implied by the structure and style of the poem |
| persona | assumed speaker of the poem; typically used synonymously with 'speaker' |
| symbolism | something (object, person, situation, etc.) means more than what it is |
| synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board) |
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