ENGL 102

Poetry Terms

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Poetry Terms
Fall 2004

OETRY  TERMINOLOGY

 Find the definitions for the following terms.  You may use a dictionary, a literary dictionary, a book on poetic forms, an anthology of literature that includes definitions, or online sources.

 You will want to use the appropriate terms in your poetry writing assignments.

  1. alliteration

  2. allusion

  3. analogy

  4. anapestic

  5. assonance

  6. ballad

  7. blank verse

  8. concrete images

  9. connotation

  10. dactylic

  11. denotation

  12. diction

  13. dramatic monologue

  14. English sonnet (Shakespearean sonnet) (what is the rhyme scheme and how are the 14 lines split?)

  15. Italian sonnet (Petrarchan sonnet)(what is the rhyme scheme and how are the 14 lines split?)

  16. Elegy

  17. Extended metaphors

  18. Epic

  19. Epigram

  20. Free verse

  21. Imagery

  22. Iambic

  23. Limerick

  24. Lyric

  25. Metaphor

  26. Meter

  27. Myth

  28. Personification

  29. Occasional poem

  30. Onomatopoeia

  31. Protest poem

  32. Symbolic poem

  33. syllabic verse

  34. villanelle

  35. tone

 
 

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