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Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Allusion

A reference in literary work to a person place or thing in history or another work of literature

Amphilbranch

A stressed syllaball surrounded by two unstressed

Anapest

Two unstressed filled by a stress

Apostrophe

Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary

Assonance

The repetition of sound near enough to each other for the echo

Blank verse

Unrymed iambic pentameter

Caesura

Pause near the middle of the line

Carpe diem

Latin expression that means cease the day

Catalogue

The poetic techniques of listing

Conceit

A fanciful or ingenious poetic image or meter that likens one thing to something else that is seemingly very different often with shocking effect

Consonance

The recurrence of similar constant sounds in close proximity to one another

Couplet

Two successive rhyming lines that have the same meter and form complete though

Dactyl

A metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllable

Diction

A selection of words in literary work

Dimeter

A metrical line of verse with two feet

End stopped line

A poetic device in which a pause comes at the end of the sentence can have punctuation

English sonnet

14 lines 3 quatrains and a couplet

Enjambment

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end line

Epic

Long book length poem

Figurative language

Laungage that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation

Free verse

Poetry that does not rhyme or have regular meter

Iamb

Unstressed followed by a stressed

Iambic pentameter

Metric form each have five iambs

Imagery

Language that creates a mental picture of something

Irregular rhythms

Poetic rhythms that does not follow a regular meter

Italian sonnet

14 lines divided into two parts

Lyric

Short poem such as sonnet or a ode that expresses thoughts and feelings

Metaphor

Figure of speech comparing two things

Molossus

Three stressed syllable in a row

Mono meter

Line of verse with just one foot

Octave

A stanza or grouping of eight lines

Onomatopoeia

Words sound associated with what it’s named

Pentameter

Five lines of five feet

Prosody

The patterns of Ruth em and sound used in poetry

Pyrrhus

Foot used in a poem consists of two unaccented short syllables

Quatrain

Type of stanza complete poem consist of four lines

Quintrain

Five lines

Regular rhythm

Flows with a regular patter or meter

Rhyme scheme

The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line

Scansion

Analysis of a poem meter

Sestet

Poem of six lines

Simile

Comparing two things using like or as

Slant rhymes

Half rhyme near rhyme lazy rhyme similar words but not rhyme

Sonnet

14 line poem

Spondee

Two stressed syllables

Stanza

Four or more lines having a fixed length

Tercet

Three lines of poetry forming a stanza

Tetrameter

4 lines

Tone

The implied attitude of a writer

Trimester

A meter of three metrical feet per line

Trochee

Metrical foot con sting of a stressed syllable followed by a unstressed