English - Poetry

Alliteration

Two or more nearby words repeat the same starting consonant sound

Allusion

A brief and indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, work of art, or pop culture icon

Analogy

A comparison between two different things that share a similar feature or relationship

Anaphora

A literary and rhetorical device where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases

Assonance

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words

Cacophony

A harsh, unpleasant, or jarring mixture of loud sounds

Caesura

A deliberate pause or break within a line of poetry

Connotation

The associated or secondary meaning of a word

Consonance

Recurrance of sounds and words

Denotation

The literal, objective dictionary definition of a word, stripped of any emotional or cultural feelings

Dissonance

The deliberate use of harsh, clashing, or unmusical sounds, irregular rhythms, and avoided patterns of repetition to create tension and unease

End Rhyme

A Rhyme of the least word or syllable of two or more lines.

End-Stopped Lines

A line of poetry that ends with a complete thought and is a complete phrase

Enjambment

A poetic technique where a sentence, phrase, or clause continues from one line or stanza to the next without terminal punctuation

Euphony

Words that have a pleasing sound put together

Homonym

A word that sounds the same or spelt alike with a different meaning

Homophone

One of two or more words alike with different meaning

Hyperbole

an exaggeration for the state of emphasis

Internal Rhyme

A rhyme inside the middle of poetry instead of the end

Irony

A situation that intended with a result that ended with a different or bad result

Juxtaposition

the act of placing two or more things, ideas, or characters close together or side by side to compare them, contrast them, or create an interesting effect

Line break

A control code or formatting mark that ends a line of text and moves your cursor to the next line without starting a new paragraph

Meter

The systematic, rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse

Mood

The emotional atmosphere or feeling that a poem creates in the reader

Motif