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An in-depth terminology list for poetry, descriptions, and some examples of terminology in the poetry set.
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English Poetry Terminology AndStructures As Well As Guidelines And
Some Examples
, Poetry Terms:
Allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden
meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent
or closely connected words.
Allusion: A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person,
place, event, or movement
Ambiguity: A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is
said to be ambiguous
Anaphora: is the repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or
poetic lines. Repetition
Archetype: archetype, (from Greek archetypes, “original pattern”), in literary
criticism, a primordial image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs
throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered a universal
concept or situation.
Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of the vowel sound across words within the
lines of the poem creating internal rhymes. Examples of assonance across words
include: crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; and, the kind knight
rides by
Ballad: A ballade poem is a verse form consisting of three main stanzas and one
concluding stanza called an envoi, each of which culminates in a repeated last line
(referred to as the refrain line). The first three stanzas are eight-line stanzas, while
the envoi is four lines
Blank verse: “Blank verse” is a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed
but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
Caesura: (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot.
(in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.
Conceit: From the Latin term for “concept,” a poetic conceit is an often
unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are more
intellectual than sensual.
Couplet: aa bb cc dd
Dramatic monologue: A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent
listener, usually not the reader
Elegy: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
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