Poetry Terms

alliteration

allusion

approximate rhyme

assonance

atmosphere

ballad

blank verse

couplet

diction

Elizabethan/Shakespearean sonnet

feet

figurative language

figures of speech

free verse

haiku

hyperbole

iambic pentameter

imagery

internal rhyme

irony

lyric

internal rhyme

inversion

metaphor

meter

mood

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

paradox

parallelism

personification

quatrain

refrain

rhyme

rhyme scheme

rhythm

simile

sonnet

speaker

stanza

style

syllables

symbol

tercet

theme

tone

voice