poetry terms(APLIT) + the code

foot

unit of rhythm, repeating patern of unstressed and stressed syllables

iambs

unstressed the stressed (intimate, natural)

trochees

stressed then unstressed(somber, despairing, emotionally heavy)

anapests

two unstressed then stressed(skipping, galloping, faster paced, strong rhyme)

dactyls

stressed then two unstressed(sing song, marching, hypnotic)

enjambent

A sentence or phrase continues from one line of poetry to the next without terminal punctuation (like a comma, period, or dash) at the end of the first line.

caesura

pause within a line(deliberate break)

stanzas

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

Quatrain

four line stanza

blank verse

verse without rhyme

iambic pentameter

five pairs of iambic lines with ten syllables

irony

a literary device where meaning contrasts with expectation

synecdoche

when the word for a part of a body is used to refer to the whole thing( ex: all hands on deck)

metonymy

the word for one thing is used to refer to something related to that thing(ex:the hired gun did the job)

symbols

a tangible thing that represents a figurative idea or theme

metaphor

comparing two things with the use of “like” or “as”

Visual imagery

Sight (e.g., "the crimson sunset")

kinesthetic imagery

stomach turning internal feeling

sestina

a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi.

elegy

open form (meditates the loss / the death of someone)

ballad

open form( usually simple containing dialogue, repetition, and minor characterization, written in quatrains, often 13 lines, basic rhyme scemes(abcd) with a refrain and folk heroes as subject, as well as the supernatural, disasters, good vs evil, love, and loss)

key

power knowledge

quest/ journeys

search

meal

communion

vampire

draining

predator

target young stalking(prey) lurking

ghost

attachment feeding off emotion fear

rain

equalizer cleansing violent turgid rebirth, liberating

rain+sun

second chance promise

fog

ominous

snow

inhospitable, sever, inviting, intense, clean stark

violence

injury

caves

our past/secrets

symbolism

connective absurdly

doors

passage \ a new\ going back

christ

self sacrafice a savior

flight

ascending/ freedom

bird women

free spirit/transformation/ spiritual connection

flower

life/virginity/

mountain

place of knowledge/ place of opression

valley

lush and peaceful

darkness

ignorance

light

truth

autum

middle age decline