Literary Terms for Poetry
1. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds
2. Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
3. Blank Verse: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
4. Concrete Poem: A poem with a shape that suggests it’s subject
5. Consonance: the repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables
6. Couplet: A pair of rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter
7. Dramatic Poetry: Poetry that involves the techniques of drama
8. Epic: A long narrative poem about the deed of gods and heroes
9. Extended Metaphor: A subject is spoken or written of as though it were something else
10. Free Verse: Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
11. Haiku: Japanese poem written in 5-7-5 needs to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature
12. Lyric Poem: A highly musical verse that expresses the observations of the writer
13. Mood: The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. The mood is often suggested by descriptive details
14. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate sounds
15. Parody: A work done in imitation of another, usually in order to mock it, but sometimes just in fun
16. Personification: A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
17. Pun: A play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike
18. Refrain: A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song
19. Repetition: The use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence
20. Rhyme: The repetition of sounds at the ends of words- internal rhyme occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line
“Metaphor.” Dictionary of World Literature: Criticism - Forms - Technique. Ed. Joseph T. Shipley. New York: Philosophical Library, 1943. 377-8.
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