English Poetry Terms- Hard Terms

These are the terms I highlighted in red or yellow on the paper.

Slant Rhyme

rhyme that is not exact, but “close enough”

Eye Rhyme

Words that look like they rhyme but don’t sound like it. Ex: “bomb” and “tomb”

Masculine Rhyme

rhyme that ends with a stressed syllable or one syllable word

Feminine Rhyme

rhyme that ends with an unstressed syllable. Usually two syllable words that rhyme are a feminine rhyme.

Sibilance

Repetition of sounds with a high-frequency “hissing” effect, usually “s”, “sh,” and “ch” sounds.

Enjambement

the continuation of grammatical structure across lines of poetry

Formal poetry

poetry that adheres to a structure for rhyme and meter such as the sonnet or the villanelle.

Blank verse

poetry written with meter but without a consistent rhyme scheme.

assonance

repetition of vowel sounds

Juxtaposition

two things placed alongside one another for a contrasting effect

Foil

A character whose traits contrast with another character’s, emphasize their distinctive characteristics.