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| Repetition of stressed initial or medial consonants in 2 or more adjacent words, to bind verses together or for poetic effect. |
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| Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses, establishing emphasis for emotional effect. |
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| Placing opposite ideas in parallel for greater effect. ie: Death is the mother of beauty. |
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| Repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds within a passage, usually in accented (stressed) syllables. |
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| A love lyric in which the speaker dreads the arrival of dawn when he and his lover must part--often concerned with immortality. |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter (five iambic feet per line). Shakespeare. |
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| A harsh, discordant combination of sounds, often used to create a sense of disorder or an unpleasant feeling in the reader. |
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| A strong pause within a line or verse. The pause could be indicated by punctuation, or the grammatical construction of the sentence, or the placement of lines upon a page. |
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| Often referred to as the literary canon, this body of literature that has been accepted as literary and important. The canon is always changing & is the source of great contraversy. Contemporary critics challenge the exclusion of or underrepresentation of women, minorities, and non-Western authors. |
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| A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases that creates a balanced, symmetrical lines. |
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| A fanciful or elaborate comparison used by many poets, such as comparing a loved one to the wonders and beauties of the world. |
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| Repetition of a pattern of consonants with changes n intervening vowels. aka slant rhyme. |
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| The simplest form of stanza, two rhyming verses. The use of many repeating couplets in epic poetry is also called "heroic couplets." |
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| Poetry that teaches a lesson, usually of a practical, religious, or moral nature. |
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| Writing that comments upon another art form, for instance a poem about a photograph or a novel about a film. |
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| A poem of lamentation for the dead, most often very formal in style. |
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| From the French word meaning "to stride." When there are no strong punctuation marks to end each line or verse, and one lines runs over onto the next without a pause. Lines are not "end-stopped." |
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