poetry terms

connotation

connotation

emotion meaning/feeling the word gives

denotation

dictionary meaning of the word

inversion

changing of the normal word order to fit rhyme scheme or meter

meter

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

iambic foot

one unit of poetic meter, 2 syllables

monometer

1 foot, 2 syllables

dimeter

2 feet, 4 syllables

trimeter

3 feet, 6 syllables

tetrameter

4 feet, 8 syllables

pentameter

5 feet, 10 syllables

scansion/scanning

identifying stressed and unstressed syllables

(rhyming) couplet

pair of lines that rhyme and/or have the same meter

lyric poem

a poem that expresses feeling and has a rhyming scheme

slant rhyme half rhyme, lazy rhyme

formed by words with similar but not identical sounds

poetic license

departing from conventions/rules of language to create an effect

ex.) thundering → thund’ring

sonnet

14 line poem from- the Italian word “sonneto” (little song)

Petrarchan/Italian sonnet

written in iambic pentameter

lines 1-8 (octave)

introduces the subject

lines 6-14 (sestet)

comments on the octave

Shakesperian/elizabethan sonnet

has 3 4- line groups followed by a rhyming couplet

free verse

poetry that has no rhyme scheme or meter

parallel structure

repetition of phrases/sentences with the same grammatical structure

Mood

Environment created by the author

Tone

How the author feels toward the subject

Refrain

Repeated lines (nevermore)

End rhyme

Rhymes at the end of lines

Internal rhyme

Rhymes that occur inside a line of poety

Alliteration

Repetition of a consonant sound

Onomatopoeia

Use of words that echo their sense