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Poetry not written in traditional meter or rhyme
heroic couplet
free verse
blank verse
terza rhyma
a strong pause within a line of verse (usually marked by punctuation)
apostrophe
couplet
enjambment
caesura
a run-on line of poetry where it carries over into the next line because there is no punctuation
enjambment
end-stopped line
caesura
couplet
I’m nobody! || Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us || – don’t tell!
They’d banish || – you know!
caesura
enjambment
“April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
caesura
enjambment
change in focus, point of view, time, or tone in a poem
shift or turn
stanza
rhythm
caesura
stanza
a group of words or a phrase in a poem
a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in poetry
a pattern of rhyme in a poem
repeating words, phrases, or lines for emphasis
emotional or figurative value of words that goes beyond dictionary definition
connotation
meter
speaker
denotation
Chocolate is my Achilles' heel
allusion
simile
alliteration
synecdoche
a metrical foot consisting of an unaccented (unstressed) syllable followed by an accented (stressed) one
foot
iamb
octave
meter
The pen is mightier than the sword--
rhyme
metonymy
meter
refrain
the wind whistled through the forest:
stanza
internal rhyme
assonance
personification
pattern of beats in poetry
meter
foot
octave
iamb
An eight line stanza
foot
meter
sestet
octave
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words: "What would the world be, once bereft.Of wet and wildness?"(Gerald Manley Hopkins, "Inversnaid")
Alliteration
Anapest
Antithesis
Accent
The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds: "Thou still unravished bride of quietness,/ Thou foster child of silence and slow time" ("Ode to a Grecian Urn," John Keats).
Alexandrine
Assonance
Antithesis
Anapest
Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays this way.
Free Verse
Apostrophe
Blank Verse
Assonance
a special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object, such as an animal, object, or concept
personfication
simile
conceit
apostrophe
Occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond
apostrophe
conceit
paradox
metonomy
The use of the part for the whole
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Personiciation
Simile
The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant; for example, using blood for "life"
metonymy
synedoche
personification
paradox
how the speaker feels about the subject or another character in a poem
tone
mood
sensory imagery
caesura
The feelings evoked in the reader because of the author's use of diction and imagery
tone
mood
symbolism
setting
14 line long lyric poems with regular meter (usually iambic pentameter) ABAB CDCD EFEFGG
Shakespearean/Elizabethan sonnet
Petrachan/Italian sonnet
ballad
apostrophe
What is a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.
apostrophe
sonnet
ode
rhyme
"Victoria vrooms in the van very vivaciously."
assonance
metaphor
alliteration
hyperbole
personification
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
The sun is like a light bulb.
The Sun smiled at us.
A wild wind blew on Wednesday.
Pattern of end rhymes in a stanza
alliteration
meter
couplet
rhyme scheme
the voice talking to the reader in a poem
speaker
tone
prose
poet
A six-line stanza
tetrameter
sestet
quatrain
octave
The Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet has
one cinquain, one x-line stanza
three quatrains, one couplet
one octave, one sestet
two septets
a word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at times throughout a poem or song, especially at the end of a stanza
near or slant rhyme
end rhyme
rhyme scheme
refrain
the author places a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another to highlight the CONTRAST between the two to compare them.
foot
pentameter
trochee
juxtaposition
a metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables
iamb
foot
hand
trochee
a line made up of four feet
tetrameter
quatrain
pentameter
stanza
brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, movement
enjambment
elegy
assonance
allusion
metrical foot consisting of an accented (stressed) syllable followed by an unaccented (unstressed) syllable
trochee
iamb
meter
foot
a comparison developed over a series of lines rather than just within one line
consonance
extended metaphor
assonance
apostrophe
shared consonants or resemblance in sound
assonance
consonance
alliteration
denotation
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