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Allegory
A story in which characters, settings, and actions stand for something
beyond
themselves.
Abstract Poem
Verse that depends upon
auditory
values for
meaning.
Metaphor
A figure of speech comparing to unlike things
without
using like or as.
Simile
A comparison of two
unlike
things using like or
as.
Anapest
A
metrical
unit with
unstressed-unstressed-stressed
syllables.
Ballad
A type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both
lyric
and
narrative
in nature.
Blank Verse
Poetry written in
unrhymed
iambic
pentameter.
Free Verse
Poetry that does not have a
regular
meter or
rhyme
scheme.
Cadence
Rhythmic
flow of a sequence of sounds or
words.
Concrete Poetry
A poem that visually resembles something found in the
physical
world.
Rhymed
Verse
Consists of a verse with end
rhyme
and regular
meter.
Caesura
A
pause
or break within a line of
poetry.
Charm
Something believed to bring
good luck.
Conceit
The trait of being
vain
and
conceited.
Dirge
A
funeral
hymn or
lament.
Doggerel
Loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for
burlesque
or
comic effect.
End Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs at the
end
of two or more lines of
poetry.
Internal Rhyme
A
rhyme
between words in the
same
line.
Alliteration
The repetition of
consonant
sounds at the
beginning
of words.
Onomatopoeia
The use of words that imitate sounds.
Meter
A regular
pattern
of
stressed
and unstressed syllables.
Foot
One
stressed
syllable and one or more
unstressed
syllables.
Fable
A brief story that leads to a
moral
, often using
animals
as characters.
Open Couplet
A couplet that is
not
gramatically complete
without
the next line of verse.
Haiku
A
Japanese
form of
poetry
, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
Half Rhyme
A rhyme in which the final sounds of the words are
similar
, but not
identical.
Heroic Couplet
A couplet consisting of two
rhymed
lines of
iambic pentamenter
and written in an elevated style.
Iambic
One
unstressed
syllable followed by one
stressed
syllable.
Image
A single word or phrase that appeals to the
senses.
Inversion
Reversal of the normal word order of a sentence.
Kenning
A fiurative expression used in place of a
noun
Trochee
A
metrical
unit with
stressed-stressed-unstressed
syllables.
Spondaic
Two
stressed syllables.
Parallelism
The use of corresponding
grammatical
or
syntactical
forms.
Poetic License
License used by a writer or
artist
to
heighten
the effect of their work.
Prose Poem
Usually a
short
composition having the intentions of poetry but written in
prose
rather than verse.
Refrain
A regularly
repeated
line or group of lines in a poem or
song.
Ode
A poem in
praise
of an object or person.
Satire
Language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to
ridicule.
Alliteration
The
repetition
of sounds at the
beginning
of words in the same line or successive lines
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