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Advanced Comp
Poetry Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of identical consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words |
| enjambment | line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line |
| end stop | line ending in full pause, usually indicated with period or semicolon |
| scancion | act of determining the prevailing rhythm |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of sentences |
| perfect rhyme | rhyming words in which both vowel and consent sounds rhyme |
| internal rhyme | occurrence of rhyming words within a single line of verse |
| slant rhyme | consonant sounds not vowel but identical |
| caesura | pause separating phrases within lines of poetry |
| meter | number of feet within a line of traditional verse |
| iambic pentameter | two-syllable foot consisting of light stress followed by heavy stress |
| trochee | two-syllable foot consisting of heavy then light |
| anapest | three-syllable foot consisting of two light stresses climaxed by heavy |
| dactyl | three-syllable foot, heavy then two light |
| anacrusis | one or more unstressed syllable in beginning |
| spondee | two-syllable foot, heavy accents |
| apostrophe | break in sentence |
| dramatic monalogue | poem derived from theater, internal listener |
| hyperbole | figurative language which emphasis is achieved through exaggeration |
| oxymoron | contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
| metonomy | substitute of name of an attribute or adjunct for that of thing meant |
| synedoche | part is made to represent whole or vise versa |
| paradox | sounds right but is self-contradictory |
| consonance | recurrence of similar sounds in close proximity |
| parallelism | use of verbal constructions in poetry that correspond in grammar structure, sound, meter, and meaning |
| refrain | verse recurring in song or poem in intervals at the end of the stanza |
| onomatopoeia | formation of words from a sound associated with that what its named |
| petrarchan sonnet | consisting of octave with rhyme scheme abbaabba and sestet with several rhyme schemes |
| Shakespearean sonnet | iambic pentameter and consisting of three quatrains and final couplet abab efef gg |
| Spenserian sonnet | three quatrains and couplet in iambic pentameter |
| quatrain | stanza with four lines |
| sestet | 2nd division of an Italian sonnet - 6 lines |
| octave | series of 8 lines |
| heroic | english, rhyming pairs of lines - iambic |
| feminine rhyme | matches two or more syllables at end of lines |
| masculine rhyme | single stressed syllable at end of line of poetry |
| tone | general character or attitude of story |
| mood | particular feeling or state of mind |
| metaphor | comparison of two unlike things throughout play |
| foot | combination of stresses/unstressed syllables |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyme at end of lines |
| simile | comparing two unlike things - as, like |
| personification | human qualities given to other |
| imagery | creates an image in readers mind |
| irony | contrary to what one expects |
| allusion | passing reference to something else |
| theme | subject of work |
Created by:
tbostwick
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