Poetry Terms

Alliteration

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew The furrow followed free.

Allusion

Went down a rabbit hole (symbolic)

Apostrophe

O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done

Assonance

Molten-golden notes

Connotation

Implied or suggested meaning: Springtime people usually think about youth, rebirth, and romance

Consonance

And all the air solemn stillness holds

Couplet

Tis education forms the common mind.

Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Denotation

Literal meaning of a word: Springtime is the season between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice

End Rhyme

Bid me to weep, and i will weep

Wile I have eyes to see

And having none, yet I will keep

A heart to weep for thee

End Stopped

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Enjambment

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

That alters when it alteration finds

Or bends with the remover to remove

Free Verse

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume, For every

Atom belonging to me belongs to you.

Imagery

visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile

Internal Rhyme

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers

Juxtaposition

Curse Bless me/ fierce tears/ gentle rage

Lyric

A type of emotional poetry that expresses personal feelings and thoughts, often in a musical style.

Metaphor

The snow was a blanket on the ground

Metonymy

The crown= The king

The White House= The president

Narrative Poem

Poem that tells a story

Onomatopoeia

cracked, growled, roared, howled

Personification

A narrow wind complains all day

Refrain

A repeated line or group of lines in a poem, often at the end of a stanza.

Rhyme Scheme

I Never saw a moor.

I never saw the sea.

Yet I know how the heather looks,

And what a wave must be.

Simile

What happens to a dream differed? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Slant Rhyme

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

I love you to the breadth and depth and height

By soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

Sonnet

14 lined poem

Stanza

Group of lines of verses

Symbol

A rose is often a symbol of love, a skull is often a symbol of death, spring and winter often symbolize youth and old age

Synecdoche

Part that signifies the whole

“Counting heads”= counting whole people

Synesthesia

Sound of her voice was, sweet a loud aroma, a velvety smile