- Alliteration: A type of rhyme where first sounds are repeated in successive words.
- Analogy: Any resemblance (similarity) between otherwise unlike objects.
- Assonance: A type of rhyme where vowel sounds are repeated.
- Caesura: A pause within a line of poetry.
- Consonance: A repetition of consonant sounds within words.
- Couplet: A stanza of two lines which usually rhyme.
- Dramatic: A poem written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet.
- Elegy: A lament for the dead or a meditation on the thoughts that death arouses.
- Elision: The leaving out of an unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a regular meter in a line of poetry.
- Enjambment: When a line of poetry continues to the next line without punctuation.
- Epic: A long, narrative poem on a great and serious subject.
- Figurative Language: Non-literal speech used to achieve a special effect.
- Hyperbole: Exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
- Lyric: Originally a song performed in ancient Greece to the accompaniment of a lyre. A term now used for any fairly short poem in the voice of a single speaker.
- Metaphor: When a word or phrase is compared to something it does not literally resemble in order to emphasize particular qualities.
- Metonymy: When an object/person is referred to by another object that is closely associated with it.
- Onomatopoeia: A word meaning how it sounds.
- Personification: A figure of speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics.
- Pun: A play on words.
- Quatrain: A four-line stanza or a complete poem.
- Simile: A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds often using like or as.
- Stanza: A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines often times with a reoccurring pattern or rhyme.
- Symbol: Something that is itself and something else.
- Tercet: Three lines of poetry forming a stanza or a complete poem.
Period 6 Poetry