| blank verse | unrhymed poetry writen in iambic pentameter |
| epic | long narrative poem, usually the deeds of a great hero; Beowulf, The Iliad, The Odessy |
| free verse | poetry containing no regular pattern of rhyme or meter |
| plagiarism | the use of someone else's words or ideas without citing or giving them credit |
| dramatic monologue | poem in which a speaker addresses a silent or absent listener |
| form/structure | the way a work of art is built; in poetry it is the physical arrangement of words on the page, that is, the length and placement of lines and stanzas |
| imagery | language evoking the five senses, words/phrases making a reader see, feel, hear, taste, smell |
| confessional poetry | poetry that reveals personal information about the author |
| concrete poetry | poetry wherein the form/structure reflect the content; poetry that looks like what it's about |
| apostrophe | a figure of speech wherein an inanimate object is addressed as though it were animate |
| ballad | narrattive poem that was originally meant to be sung |
| epigraph | a quote at the beginning of a literary work (revealing insight about the work to follow) |
| couplet | a two line stanza (which often rhymes) |
| elegy | a long poem of mourning over death |
| iambic pentameter | a line of poetry containing five two-syllable measures |
| hyperbole | the use of exaggeration for litereary effect |
| figure of speech/figurative language | words/phrases that are not meant to be taken literally |
| alliteration | repetition of sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of non-rhyming words |