Terms : Hide Images
| 3216265302 | Dramatic Poem | a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as means of achieving poetic ends. | 0 | |
| 3216278227 | Elegy | a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme. | 1 | |
| 3216282520 | End-stopped | a line with a pause at the end. Lines that end with a period, a comma, a semicolon, an exclamation point, or a question mark are end-stopped lines. | 2 | |
| 3216288088 | Enjambment | the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one of poetry to the next. | 3 | |
| 3216295874 | Extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. | 4 | |
| 3216302881 | Euphony | a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate. Its opposite is cacophony. | 5 | |
| 3216310112 | Eye rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation. | 6 | |
| 3216325559 | Feminine rhyme | a rhyme of two syllables, on stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition" | 7 | |
| 3216332523 | Figurative language | writing that uses figures of speech (as opposed to literal language or that which is actual or specifically denoted) such as METAPHOR, IRONY, and SMILIE. | 8 | |
| 3216344785 | Free verse | poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical. | 9 | |
| 3216352487 | Heroic couplet | two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit. | 10 | |
| 3216360019 | Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. | 11 | |
| 3216366714 | Imagery | the images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. | 12 | |
| 3216375071 | Irony | the contrast between actual meaning and suggestion of another meaning. Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning. | 13 | |
| 3216386553 | Internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. | 14 | |
| 3216393329 | Lyric poem | any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. | 15 | |
| 3219431618 | Rationalism | 1750-1800 | 16 | |
| 3219429995 | Romanticism | 1800-1860 | 17 | |
| 3219431217 | Trancendentalism | 1840-1860 | 18 | |
| 3219430620 | Realism | 18500-1900 | 19 |
