Poetic Elements(Jargon)

Front 1

the repition of an initial consonant sound in two or more words of a line to produce a noticable artistic effect
Example:
The waves washed away the sand

Back 1

alliteration

Front 2

reference to another literary work, to another art, to history, to contemporary figures, etc.
Example:
He has a Napeolition complex.
He is Curley.

Back 2

allusion

Front 3

as distinguished from rhyme, the reptition of vowel sounds procceeded by unlike consonants
Example:
My jaw ached from the apple

Back 3

assonance

Front 4

a theme in many love poems, in which a lover is implored not to be hestiant in affection(lets do it now)

Back 4

carpe diem

Front 5

a poem in which the visual arrangement in which the letters and words suggest the meaning
Example:
a heart-shaped love peom

Back 5

concrete peom

Front 6

a two-line stanza, usually rhymed
Example:
Your soul I shall never miss
For I know I was your last kiss

Back 6

couplet

Front 7

a writer's choice of words

Back 7

diction

Front 8

rhymes at the end of lines of poetry
Example:
I noticed the sky was blue
As I watched the birds that flew

Back 8

end rhyme

Front 9

a fourteen line poem (rhyming abab cdcd efef gg)of three quartrains and a closing souplet

Back 9

English or Shakespearean sonnet

Front 10

a long narrative poem

Back 10

epic

Front 11

a rhyme in which he similarity of sounds is in both of the last two syllables
Example:
....he walked
....he talked

Back 11

feminine rhyme

Front 12

poetry that is both unrhymed and without a regular meter, although it may be more or less rythmical

Back 12

free verse

Front 13

an Oriental form of seveteen syllables in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables
Example:
Metaphorical
The butterflies fluttered on
Watch them fly away

Back 13

haiku

Front 14

formal literary language

Back 14

high diction

Front 15

an exaggeration; a statement that something is either much more or much less of a quality that it truly has
Example:
All the womens in town
Was gathered round me

Back 15

hyperbole

Front 16

rhyme that occurs in the middle of a line(or on the same line)
Whenever Richard Cory went Dotwn town

Back 16

internal rhyme

Front 17

a poem that is fourteen lines long, structured as follows: abba abba cdc cdc

Back 17

Italian or Petrarchan sonnet

Front 18

street language; simple or vulgar words

Back 18

low diction

Front 19

a highly concentrated poem of direct personal emotion, most often written in the first person

Back 19

lyric

Front 20

a figure of speech in which a person, an object, or an idea is imaginatively transformed

Back 20

metaphor