Literary Terms
Poetic Diction and Elevated Style
"Plain" Language in Poetry
Imagery, Symbolism and Figures of Speech
It is never just imagery or symbolism. Be specific. Show why it matters.
Imagism
Figures of Speech
Figurative language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Apostrophe
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Performance Poetry
Tone: The Speaker's Attitude
Ironic Tone
Poetic Forms
Fixed Forms
sonnet: Italian vs English
ghazal
pantoum
villanelle
Parts
Tercet
quatrain
septet
octave
Stanzaic Forms
Ballad Stanza
Rhymic Couplet
Terza rima
ottava rima
rhyme oryal
Spenserian Stanza
Free Verse
Prose Poetry
Poem as Material Object
Rhythm and Scansion
Quantitative, Syllabic, Accentual-Syllabic Verse
Identifying Poetic Meter
Stressed vs unstressed
imabic
trochaic
anapaestic
dactylic
spondaic
monometer
dimeter
trimeter
tetrameter
pentameter
hexameter
Rhyme, Consonance, Assonance and Alliteration
Near Ryhmes
Eye Rhymes
Consonance and Assonance
Alliteration
Writing about Literature
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