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| Term used to refer to the recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. Poets use rhythm to create pleasurable sound patterns and to reinforce meanings. |
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| Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme. |
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| The repetition of identical or similar concluding syllables in different words. End rhyme is the most common form of rhyme in poetry; the rhyme comes at the end of the lines |
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| A poetic line that has a pause at the end. |
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| The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause. An example of enjambment can be found in the first line of Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees: "I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree." |
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| Internal rhyme places at least one of the rhymed words within the line, as in "Dividing and gliding and sliding" or "In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud." |
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| A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza. |
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| Telling a story. Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of narrative poems. |
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| A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer, |
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| A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain |
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| A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem may resemble a song in form or style. |
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| A narrative technique in which action and external events are conveyed indirectly through a fictional character's mental soliloquy of thoughts and associations |
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| A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful |
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| A lyric poem that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure |
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| A lyric poem that is 14 lines long. English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are composed of three quatrains and a final couplet, with a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. |
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| A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed). There are four iambs in the line "Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love (live, me, be, love) |
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| a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought. |
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| Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set meter |
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| A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku often reflect on some aspect of nature. |
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| This is the contrast between what is said and what is meant. In other words, sarcasm |
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| This is the contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what we (the reader) know to be true. Sometimes as we read we are placed in the position of knowing more than what one character knows. |
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| It is the contrast between what happens and what was expected (or what would seem appropriate). |
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