poetic term

• Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
• Anaphora is repeating a word or phrase at the start of successive sentences, clauses, phrases, or lines.
• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words that are close together.
• Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds within words that are close together.
• Euphony is pleasing to hear; harmonious sounding.
• Hyperbole is exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.
• Anaphora: the use of a word referring back to a word used earlier in a text or conversation, to avoid repetition, for example the pronouns he, she, it, and they and the verb do in I like it and so do they.
• assonance: resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, cold, culled)
• consonance: agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions
• cacophony: a harsh discordant mixture of sounds
• euphony: the quality of being pleasing to the ear
• enjambment - a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. An enjambed line typically lacks punctuation at its line break, so the reader is carried smoothly and swiftly—without interruption—to the next line of the poem.
• caesura - 1 : a break in the flow of sound usually in the middle of a line of verse 2 : break, interruption 3 : a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody.
• connotation: an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning
• denotation: the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
• metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the turf for horse racing.
• synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in England lost by six wickets (meaning ‘the English cricket team’).
• shift - a literary device in which the tone or mood in a piece of writing is changed in order to define characters or make a novel or poem more interesting, engaging, and effective. Authors use conjunctions or other transition words to indicate a rhetorical shift, in addition to changes in verb tense.
• symbol: a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation
• structure - the organization of a story's various elements, including plot, characters, and themes. It forms a frame that helps a reader understand how a story's elements tie together.
• imagery: visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
• diction: the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
• repetition: the action of repeating something that has already been said or written