Poetry Terms

  1. allegory
  2. alliteration
  3. allusion
  4. assonance
  5. apostrophe
  6. approximate rhyme or slant rhyme
  7. blank verse
  8. cacophony
  9. connotation
  10. consonance
  11. continuous form
  12. couplet
  13. denotation
  14. didactic
  15. dramatic irony
  16. enjambment or run-on line
  17. euphony
  18. feminine rhyme
  19. fixed form
  20. foot
  21. free verse
  22. hyperbole or overstatement
  23. iambic meter
  24. imagery: visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinesthetic, organic
  25. internal rhyme
  26. metaphor
  27. metonymy
  28. paradox
  29. paraphrase
  30. personification
  31. prose
  32. prose meaning
  33. rhythm
  34. satire
  35. scansion
  36. sentimentality
  37. sestet
  38. simile
  39. situational irony
  40. sonnet
  41. stanza
  42. stanzaic form
  43. symbol
  44. theme
  45. total meaning
  46. tone
  47. understatement
  48. verbal irony
  49. verse

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