Alphabet Poem: Any poem that has the first letter of each line being consecutive letters of the alphabet.

Alliteration: A close repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words.

Allusion: A reference, usually brief, to a presumable familiar person or thing.

Anapest: A metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.

Antithesis: Contrast of ideas in parallel arrangements, words, clauses, sentences, etc.

Apostrophe: A figure of speech in which a person not present or a personified abstraction is addressed.

Archetype: From the Greek arché, meaning "original" or "primitive" plus typos, "form".

Art Trouve: In the style of medieval narrative or epic poets of northern France.

Artistic Clique: Any group that is based on style of expression/art.

Assonance: The close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables.

Atmosphere: The mood that is established by the totality of the literary work.

Audience: The intended readers of the poem.

Audio: Relating to sound or its reproduction. Auditory, hearing.

Avant-garde: A term designating new writing that contains innovative form or technique.

Ballad: Tells a story, love/tragedy, has rhythm and abab rhyme scheme. Originally designed to be sung.

Cacophony: Discordant or harsh sounds which are frequently introduced for poetic effect, maybe the result of difficulty of articulation, through the image presented.

Calligram: A design using letters of a word.

Chorus: Serves as a narrator in poetry, primarily a lyric element from which the Greek drama developed.

Cinepoem: Visual, moving poem.

Collage: An assembly of diverse fragments, ideas or thoughts.

Computer Poetry: Poetry made by a computer or in the style of such characterised by terse, emotion free language.

Concrete Poetry: Poetry where poet's intent is conveyed by graphic patterns of letters, words, symbols.

Connotation: The implications or suggestions that are evoked by a word.

Consonance: The close repetition of identical consonant sounds.

Convention: A generally accepted literary device or form.

Couplet: Two successive lines of verse, usually rhymed and of the same metre.

Cummingese: Poetry in the style of e. e. cummings.

Dactyl: A metrical foot consisting of three syllables the first stressed and the other two unstressed.

Denotation: Direct, specific meaning as distinct from connotation.

Dialect: A manner of speaking unique to an individual or group.

Dialogue: Any conversation between characters.

Diction: Is vocabulary used by a writer.

Didactic Verse: Designed or intended to teach, inform, lecture, or preach, in poetic form.

Disc Poetry: Poetry that is circular in nature and graphic.

Elegy: Sad and serious. Usually the topic concerns the loss of a loved one.

Emotive language: of or relating to the emotions: appealing to or expressing emotion.

Epigram: Write on, inscribe. A concise poem dealing satirically with 1 thought and ending with a turn of thought.

Epiphany: A moment of significant realisation that often changes a character's life.

Euphemism: Sounding good. The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend/suggest something unpleasant.

Euphony: Acoustic effect produced by words formed to please the ear.

Feminine rhyme: A 2 syllable rhyme.

Figurative language: Characterised by figures of speech. Language that goes beyond the literal.

Flashback: When the setting transfers from the present to the past and back again.

Foil: A character whose behaviour, attitudes, opinions, contrast with those of the protagonist.

Foot: A unit of verse metre consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Foreshadowing: Hints or warnings of future events.

Form: The way in which a story is put together including style and type.

Free verse: Irregular metre and rhyme.

Genre: A type of artistry characterised by consistent features.

Global village: A view of the earth as one community.

Gothic: Medieval style that often refers to dark colours, horror, and melodrama.

Haiku: Japanese poem that usually has nature as the topic and is characterised by 17 syllables split between three lines: 5-7-5.

Hyperbole: Wild or extreme exaggeration.

Iamb: A metric foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Image: A picture that is created from language.

Imagery: The language that is used to create a vivid image that appeals to the senses.

in medias res: From the Latin meaning into the midst of things.

Interior monologue: Extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's sequence of thoughts and feelings.

Irony: When what occurs is not what is naturally expected. 3 types: verbal, situational, dramatic

Lampoon: Harsh satire that is intended to ridicule someone or something.

Light verse: Poetry that is intended solely for pleasure and to entertain.

Limerick: A light or humorous verse form characterised by five lines with lines 1,2, and 5 rhyming and sharing the same rhythm and the 3rd and 4th lines being shorter and rhyming with each other.

Literal: Free from exaggeration adhering to fact or to ordinary construction or primary meaning of a term or expression.

Lyric: A short poem expressing personal emotion.

Masculine rhyme: Single syllable rhymes.

Metaphor: A comparison of two things generally not thought to be the same.

Metre: The rhythmic pattern resulting from the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Mime: A form of drama where gestures and actions are used as opposed to verbal language.

Monologue: A long speech made by one person often reflecting that characters' thoughts and feelings.

Mood: State of mind or feeling created in a piece of work.

Muses: The 9 spirits from Greek mythology that offer inspiration for artisans.

Narrative: A poem which tells the story of ordinary people.

Nonsense verse: Words, ideas, or acts without meaning.

Onomatopoeia: Formation or names and words by imitating the sound associated with the thing.

Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which contradictory words or connotations are placed together.

Paradox: A statement that seems contradictory or opposed to common sense that upon further consideration may be true.

Parody: A literary or musical work in which the style of author is closely imitated for comic effect.

Pathetic fallacy: The ascription of human thoughts or feelings to inanimate objects.

Persona: The character through which a story is told.

Personification: The ascribing of human qualities to non-human things.

Petrarchan Sonnet: A 14 line poem with Iambic Pentameter rhythm and a consistent rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdcdcd in the style of the Italian author Petrarch; usually dealing with intense love and emotion.

Poetic Justice: An outcome in which evil is punished and good rewarded.

Poetics: The study/theory of poetry.

Point of View: A position from which something is considered or presented.

Pun: Humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings/applications.

Quatrain: A unit of four lines of verse.

Reader: Person who reads a book for learning or entertainment.

Realism: Practical tendency. A style characterised by picturing nature, life, people, as they really are.

Refrain: A phrase or verse repeated regularly in a piece of work.

Rhyme: Two words that sound alike in the final parts.

Rhythm: The repetition of an accent; an arrangement of beats in a line of poetry.

Satire: The use of irony to ridicule an idea, person, thing often to provoke change.

Simile: A comparison of two things generally not thought to be the same using "like" or "as".

Song: A short poem set to music.

Sonnet: A 14 line poem that has iambic pentameter rhythm and a consistent rhyme scheme.

Stanza: A group of lines of poetry, usually of four lines or more.

Structure: The relation of the parts or elements of a thing. Determines nature or character.

Symbol: Stands for and represents something else.

Symbolism: Expresses ideas, feelings through symbolic use of objects, shapes, or words.

Theme: The main idea of a piece of work.

Title: The name of a piece of work used to identify it.

Tone: A manner of speaking or writing that can be used to help determine mood or intent.

Triple rhyme: Three syllables that sound similar to another three syllables.

Trochee: A foot or measure consisting of 2 syllables the first being stressed the second being unstressed.

Verse: A form of literary expression using lines of words usually having a repeated stresses and rhyme.

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