Poetry Terms

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Lyric

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Poem expressing emotion

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Sonnet

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lyric poem of 14 lines and set rhyme and rhythm scheme

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speaker

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the persontelling or writing the poem
Point of view

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Comic hero

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a fictional trait in movies or narrative work which displays at least a negligible level of personal charm or worth of personality which takes to win the audience's basic approval and support

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concrete poetry

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poetry in which the meaning or effect is conveyed partly or wholly by visual means, using patterns of words or letters and other typographical devices.

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confessional poetry

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style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s that has been described as poetry "of the personal."

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dead metaphor

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a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression

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deduction

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the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle

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discourse theory

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attempts to identify how social institutions, behaviours and identities are historically and culturally constructed by a series of discourses

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elegy

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a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

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epanlepsis

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repetition after intervening words

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epigraph

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an inscription on a building, statue, or coin.

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epistolary novel

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a novel written as a series of documents