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Poetry Terms List
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstract Poetry | Poems that primarily use rhythm, sounds, and rhymes to convey an emotion, rather than relying on the meaning of words. Poem may not make any sense, but rely on auditory patterns to create meaning. |
| Accent | Anything stressed or emphasized. |
| Allegory | A narrative poem that expresses a secondary, deeper meaning through its words. |
| Anachronism | Something that does not belong in the time setting of the literary work. |
| Anthropomorphism | Giving human characteristics to animals/nonhuman entities. |
| Apostrophe | A poem that directly addresses a real or imaginary person, place, thing, etc. and evokes ideas or emotions through it. Often starts with "O" or "Oh." |
| Approximate Rhyme | Two words that are fairly similar-sounding but are not perfect rhymes. |
| Assonance | Repetition of the central vowel sound in words. |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| Cacophony | Discordant consonants and word clusters that create a harsh, jarring tone. (Ex: Jabberwocky) |
| Caesura | A pause in the middle of a line, often marked by some punctuation. This slows the pace of the poem. |
| Carpe Diem Poetry | Carpe Diem: "seize the day." Poets often mention the fleeting quality of life. |
| Cinquain | A 5 line poem, in a 1-2-3-4-1 word sequence. The 1st line is the title, and lines 2-4 describe the concept/object, while the last line refers back to the title. |
| Closed Form Poetry | This has a specific structure, rhyme scheme, etc. |
| Conceit | A poetic comparison of two unlike objects. (Ex: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") |
| Concrete Poetry | Poetry whose physical structure is just as important as its content. |
| Consonance | Repetition of similar consonant sounds. |
| Elegy | A lyric poem mourning the death of someone. |
| End Stopped Line | There is a pause between each line, usually marked by some sort of punctuation. |
| Enjambment | A run-on line of poetry, indicated by the lack of punctuation at the end of a line. Opposite of an end-stopped line. |
| Epic | An extremely long narrative poem. Typically chronicles the life of a hero. |
| Eye Rhyme | Where the words appear to rhyme (similar spelling) but don't actually sound the same. (Ex: "though" and "rough") |
| Feminine Rhyme | This is a multisyllabic rhyme, and doesn't simply come at the very last syllable of the line. (Ex: "passion" and "fashion" have more than one syllable that rhyme) |
| Foot | The smallest possible metrical unit of rhythm in a poem. (In a sonnet, this would be an iamb) |
| Iamb | A foot of two syllables. |
| Gustatory Imagery | Pertaining to taste |
| Olfactory Imagery | Pertaining to smell |
| Tactile Imagery | Pertaining to touch |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyme in the middle of the line |
| Inversion | Reversal of normal ordering of words to shift emphasis to more important words. |
| Lyric Poetry | Poetry that conveys emotion towards a subject. |
| Masculine Rhyme | A blunt, one-syllable rhyme. (Ex: "fun" and "run") |
| Meter | The rhythm established by a poem based on the syllables, and the pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables. |
| Metonymy | Figure of speech in which something is not named directly but is indicated by association. It's linked to the concept, but is not actually a part of it. (Ex: Crown = powers and responsibilities of a monarchy) |
| Octave | 8 line stanza. |
| Open Form Poetry | No specific structure to a poem; not restricted. |
| Ode | Usually a lyric poem of praise/celebration. |
| Pastoral | Poems about shepards or rustic life, usually idealized and conventional. |
| Petrarchan Sonnet | Sonnet that consists of an octave that has an ABBA ABBA rhyme scheme and a sestet, which can vary in its rhyme scheme. |
| Pun | Humorous use of a word/phrase to emphasize its different meanings/applications. |
| Quatrain | 4 line stanza |
| Rhyme | Regular correspondence of sounds, usually at the end of lines. |
| Rhythm | A certain pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. |
| Scansion | Ways to analyze the rhythm of a poem through metrical units and identification of patterns. |
| Sestet | 6 line stanza |
| Sonnet | 14 line lyric poem that often has a specific rhyme scheme. |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | Has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and is written in iambic pentameter. |
| Synedoche | Referring to a part of something but meaning the whole thing. (Or vice versa) (Ex: wheels = car) |
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