Poetry + Sound Devices Lit Terms

Blank Verse - Line in Iambic Pentameter with no rhyme

Free Verse - Does not rhyme or follow any meter like Iambic Pentameter

Explication - Essay about a poem(write/analyze)

Scanning - Taking lines of poetry and identify the stressed and unstressed syllables

Couplet - Two rhymed lines in any meter

Iambic Pentameter - 5 Iambic feet in lines of poetry, goes in pattern stressed, unstressed

Sonnet - A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter

Meter - Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Stanza - Paragraph in poetry, group of several lines

Enjambment - Sentence continues onto the next line

Elegy - Poem about a dead person

Juxtaposition - The placing of 2 things next to each other that are opposites, all is fair in love and war

Alliteration - The repetition of the same letter or sounds between nearby words, Involves the repetition of only consonant sounds

Assonance - The repetition of the same letter or sounds between nearby words, Involves the repetition of only vowel sounds

Onomatopoeia - Imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes, BOOM, POW, ZAP

Antithesis - Two clauses that contradict each other, “My love sprung from my hate”

Parallelism - A word or phrase that has repeated elements of grammatical structure, “...offer for offer, vow for vow.” (Molière I.i.17)

Anaphora - Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of the sentence