academic team terms

Ekphrastic

A poem about an art piece, often describing what isnt in frame

Villanelle

Poem w/ 5 tercetos and a quatrain

Haiku

A 3 line poem w/ a syllable pattern of 5-7-5

Iambic pentameter

10 syllables, alternating b/w stressed and unstressed

Concrete poetry

A poem arranged into a shape

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter w/ no rhyme

Free verse

Rhyme but w/o a set meter

Enjambment

Continuing a thought b/w lines of a poem w/o any punctuation to stop it

Caesura

A pause in the middle of a line of verse

Apostrophe

An address in a play to a person not present in the work or to an abstract idea

Sonnet

S poem w/ 3 quatrains and a couplet- 16 lines

Assonance

Repetition of the same vocal sound

Euphonium

When the words sound good to hear

Meter

Rhythmic structure that is established mainly by syllable stress and amount

Synecdoche

When a part of smth represents the whole or vice versa

Metonymy

When the name of smth is substituted for smth associated with/ it

Zeguma

When one word applies to two other words in two different ways

Internal rhyme

In poetry, a rhyme b/w two words where one word isnt at the end of a line

Consonance

Repetition of the same consonant sound