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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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| the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
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| a foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, |
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| rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words |
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1. any light, simple song, especially one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody.
2. a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
3. any poem written in similar style. |
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| unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. |
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| the set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects to which that term may be applied; comprehension; intension. |
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1. accord or agreement.
2. correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds |
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| a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length |
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| a foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter |
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| the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience |
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| the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation |
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| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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| noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style |
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| speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, |
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| (Literature / Poetry) Prosody a group of two or more syllables in which one syllable has the major stress, forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
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| Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter |
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| A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five |
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| Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable |
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| describes a particular rhythm that the words establish in each line. That rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables; these small groups of syllables are called "feet". |
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| engagement in mental pictures or the likeness of such images |
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| The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect |
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| A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba |
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| a short poem of songlike quality |
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| directly compares two things with a verb such as “is” |
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| metaphor that continues into the sentences that follow. It is often developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work, and are especially effective in poems and fiction |
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| metaphor that is not outright stated |
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| basic rhythmic structure of a verse |
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| poetry that has a plot. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be simple or complex. |
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| erse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter |
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| A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter |
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| a poem written in the first person |
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| The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form |
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| A stanza of four lines, esp. one having alternate rhymes |
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| A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse |
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| only the final consonant-sounds are the same |
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| is when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to another |
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| A rhyme occurring in the terminating word or syllable of one line of poetry with that of another line, |
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| A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next |
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| consonance on the final consonants of the words involved |
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| A partial or imperfect rhyme, often using assonance or consonance only |
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| another name for half rhyme |
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| pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. |
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| movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like |
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| no punctuation at the end of a line |
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| last six lines of a sonnett |
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| A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. |
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| comparison of two distint things using like or as |
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| a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes |
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| Shakespearean or English sonnet |
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| a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg |
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| Petrarchan or Italian sonnet |
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| a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd |
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| A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables |
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1. A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
2. A group of four lines in some Greek and Latin meters |
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| A manner of doing something |
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| A thing that represents or stands for something else |
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| set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together |
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| The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic |
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| Give greater strength or firmness to |
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| A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable. |
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