English 300
Poetry Terms
While we talk about poetry, we should become familiar with some of the tools poets use. These are the only things necessary to understand poetry, but then can be helpful. Look up the words in our book, or another source.
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Accent |
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Alliteration |
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Allusion |
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Anapest |
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Anaphora |
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Apostrophe |
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Assonance/Consonance |
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Ballad / ballad stanza |
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Blank Verse (Free Verse) |
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Caesura |
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Chiasmus |
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Connotation/Denotatioan |
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Couplet |
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Enjambement |
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Figures of Speech (Tropes) |
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Foot |
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Image/Imagery |
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Lyric poetry |
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Metaphor Metonymy |
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Motif |
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Onomatopoeia |
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Oxymoron |
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Parataxis (Hypotaxis) |
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Persona |
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Personification |
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Poetic Diction/License |
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Prosody |
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Quatrain |
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Rhyme (End, Internal, Eye, Slant) Rhythm |
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Scansion |
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Simile |
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Sonnet |
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Spondee |
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Stanza |
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Strophe |
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Synecdoche Synesthesia |
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Verse |
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Versification |
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Zeugma |
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