List 2 Poetry Terms

hyperbole

a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect.

imagery

 the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work.

irony

the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning.

internal rhyme

rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.

meter

the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.

foot

two syllables

trochee

Stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

iamb

 Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

metonymy

a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself.

octave

eight line stanza

onomatopoeia

the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.

oxymoron

 a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression. This combination usually serves the purpose of shocking the reader into awareness.

 parallelism

a similar grammatical structure (generally in the verbs) within a line or lines of poetry.

pun

a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings.

quatrain

a four-line stanza with any combination of rhymes