Saturday, September 18, 2010

Getting to know poetry terms

These terms are all on your poetry/drama terms handout. When researching definitions, remember these pertain to poetry. Thus, "apostrophe" used here, will not be in the punctuation sense.

Alliteration

Apostrophe

Assonance

Caesura

Conceit

Couplet (Heroic couplet)

Dissonance

Elegy (elegiac)

End-stopped line

Enjambment

Euphony

In medias res

Meter

Ode

Quatrain

Rhyme: End rhyme, external rhyme, internal rhyme,

Stanza

Volta (shift)

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