- counterpoint rhythm: two opposing rhythms appear together, for example, 2 trochaic feet in an iambic line. "The world is charged with the grandeur of God."
- dramatic monologue: a poem in which an imaginary character speaks to a silent listener
- free verse: poetry not written in a regular, thythmical pattern, or meter
- modernism: an international movement in the arts during the early 20th century
- mood: the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
- speaker: the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem; the character who "says" the poem
- sprung rhythm: used by Gerard Manley Hopkins to describe the idiosyncratic meters of his poems
- tone: the writer's attitude toward the readers and toward the subject
- villanelle: a 19 line poem in which lines 1 and 3 of the opening stanza appear regularly throughout and the rhyme scheme is aba aba aba aba aba abaa
- voice: the voice of a poet is his or her "sound" on the page
12th grade literary terms