Poetry+Literary+Terms

Poetry Terms from chapters 22-25

Oral tradition Epics Anglo-Saxon era Troubadours Renaissance Metaphysical poets Meditative poem Romanticism Modernism Imagism Harlem Renaissance Black Mountain Poets Beat poets Confessional Poems Black Arts Movement Slam poetry Spoken Word Concert poetry Visual poetry Form Sound Alliteration Assonance Consonance Imagery Figurative language Haiku Sonnet (Shakespearean, Petrarchan) Narrative poetry Lyric poetry Ballad Ballad stanza Elegy Ode Aubade Occasional poem Meditation Pastoral Dramatic monologue Pattern poem Acrostic Emblem Dadaism Surrealism Futurism Concrete poetry Explication Voice Diction Imagery Figures of speech Sound Form Symbol Allegory Allusion Myth Theme Speaker Persona Tone Epigram Irony Dramatic irony Situational irony Verbal irony Sarcasm Carpe diem Abstract Connotation Denotation Formal Diction Colloquialisms Informal Diction Sonnet Mood rhyme economy of imagery static imagery kinetic imagery synesthesia simile metaphor personification extended simile extended metaphor hyperbole understatment metonymy synechdoche apostrophe meter scansion foot end-stoppedlines run-on lines enjabment euphony cacophony onomatopoeia alliteration assonance rhyme perfect rhyme imperfect rhyme consonance eye rhyme end rhyme masculine rhyme feminine rhyme heroic couplets symbol allegory archetypes