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Accent |
The prominence or emphasis given to a syllable it word |
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Acrostic |
A descriptive prom where the first letter of each line forms a word or sentence when read downwards. |
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Alexandrine |
A line of poetry that has 12 syllables |
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Alliteration |
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words |
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers |
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Allusion |
A reference to a historical, mythic or literary person, place, event, move tn or quote etc |
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Ambiguity |
The possibility that a word or phrase has several meanings |
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Anapest |
A metrical foot of three syllables, two short (or unstressed) followed by one long (or stressed). |
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Antithesis |
A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meaning are balanced against each other. |
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Assonance |
The repetition of a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds. |
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Ballad |
A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. |
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Blank verse |
Originally poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Caesura |
A natural pause or a break in the line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line |
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Cinquain |
A poetic form of 22 syllables in 5 lines, in the format 2-4-6-8-2. A good cinquain will flow from beginning to end rather than sound like 5 separate lines |
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Classicism |
The principles and ideals of Beaty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture and literature |
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Conceit |
A fanciful poetic image or metaphor that like a one thing to something else that is seemingly very different. |
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Consonance |
The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words |
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Couplet |
In a poem, a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought |
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Dactyl |
A metrical foot of three syllables, one long (or stressed) followed by two short (or unstressed) |
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Dirge |
A brief funeral hymn or song |
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Dissonance |
Cacophony or harsh sounding language |
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Doggerel |
Bad verse, often characterised by cliches, incomprehensible to, clumsy expression and irregular metre |
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Elegy |
A poem that laments the fear of a person or one that is simply sad and thoughtful |
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Enjambment |
The continuation of a complete idea from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause |
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Envoy/ Envoi |
The shorted final stanza of a poem, usually with a moral or summary statement |
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Epic |
A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure |
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Epigram |
A very short, witty poem |
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Epigraph |
A quotation, taken from another literary work, that is placed at the start of the poem as a title and intended as an introduction |
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Epitaph |
Similar to the epigram, but composed as a tribute to a deceased person, similar to an inscription on a gravestone |
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Feminine rhyme |
A multi syllable rhyme that ends with one or more unstressed syllables |
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Fib |
A six line poem in which the number of syllables per line follow the Fibonacci sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8 |
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Figure of soeech |
A verbal expression in which words or sounds are arranged in a particular way to achieve a particular affect. Figures of speech are organised into different categories |
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Foot |
Two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem |
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Free verse/ vers libre |
Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter |
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Gnomic verse |
Poems laced with proverbs, didactic sayings or maxims |
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Haiku |
A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. |
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Heptameter |
A line of poetry that has seven metrical feet |
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Hymn |
A song of praise, usually religious |
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Heroic couplet |
A stanza composed of two rhymed lines in iambic pentameter |
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Hexameter |
A line of poetry that has six metrical feet |
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Hyperbole |
A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis. |
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Iamb |
A metrical foot of two suyllables, one short and one long. |
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Iambic pentameter |
A type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line |
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Idyll/ Idyl |
Either a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealised country scene or a long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds or extraordinary events set in the distant past |
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Image |
An expression that describes a literal sensation whether of hearing, seeing, touching, tasting and feeling, though also used generally to mean a symbol or metaphor |
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Irony |
Stating something by saying another quite different thing, sometimes it's opposite. |
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Lay |
A long narrative poem, especially one that was sung by medieval minstrels called trouvéres |
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Limerick |
A light, numerous poem of five usually anapaestic lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba |
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Litotes |
A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating it's opposite |
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Lyric |
A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet |
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Masculine rhyme |
A rhyme that occurs in a final stressed syllable |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech in which two things are compared usually by saying one things is another or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected |
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Meter/ Metre |
The arrangement of a line poetry by the number of syllables and the rhythm of accented syllables |
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Metonymy |
A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
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Narrative |
Telling a story. Ballads, epics and lays are different kinds of narrative poems |
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Neologism |
A newly coined or invented word |
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Ode |
A lyric poem that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure. |
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Onomatopoeia |
A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds |
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Oxymoron |
An expression impossible in fact but not necessarily self contradictory |
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Palindrome |
A word or phrase which reads the same forwards and backwards |
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Parody |
A send up of another work or of a well known person event or situation, not necessarily uncomplimentary |
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Pastrol |
A poem the depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealised way |
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Pentameter |
A line of poetry that has five metrical feet |
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Personification |
An anthropomorphic figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes |
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