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| Latin term for poetic inspiration. |
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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. |
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| The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words without the repetition of consonants. |
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| Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. |
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| A pause, which may or may not be indicated typographically, within a line of poetry. |
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| A division of a long poem equivalent to a chapter in a prose work. |
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| The repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words. |
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| A pair of consecutive rhyming verse lines, usually of the same length. |
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| Brought to a pause at which the end of a verse line coincides with the completion of a sentence or clause. |
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| The running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line to the next without a punctuated pause. |
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| A unit of meter which denotes the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| A type of poetry that does not conform to any regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
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| A metrical unit (foot) of verse having one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. |
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| A critical term used to describe the words or phrases which bring forth a certain picture or image in the mind of the reader. |
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| Any fairly short poem expressing the personal mood, feeling, or meditation of a single speaker. |
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| The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. |
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| The ordered or free occurrences of sound in poetry. |
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| One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. |
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| A metric line of poetry named according to the kind and number of feet composing it. |
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| Characterized by the deliberate departure from tradition and the use of innovative forms of expression, oftentimes marked by complexity and difficulty. (1922: "Ulysses" and "The Wasteland") |
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| An early 20th century movement in poetry that aimed at clarity and exactness in the short lyric poem through the presentation of concrete visual images. |
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| An abrupt lapse from growing intensity to triviality with the effect of disappointed expectation or deflated suspense. |
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| The identity assumed by a writer; thus the speaker in a lyric poem or the narrator in a fictional narrative. |
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Iamb: u/
Troche: /u
Spondee: //
Dactyl: /uu
Anapest: uu/ |
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| A kind of poem in which a single fictional or historical character other than the poet speaks to a silent audience. Such poems reveal not the poet's own thoughts but the mind of the impersonated character. |
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