Poetry Terms

Alliteration

Apostrophe

Assonance

Blank verse (is NOT the same as Free verse!)

Cacophony

Cadence

Caesura

Conceit

Connotation

Couplet (Heroic couplet also)

Dissonance

Elegy (elegiac)

End-stopped line

Enjambment

Epic

Euphony

Foot

Free verse

Iambic, trochaic, dactylic etc. (pentameter)

Imagery (visual, olfactory, tactile etc.)

In medias res

Lyric

Meter

Ode

Quatrain

Refrain

Rhyme

End

External

Feminine

Internal

Masculine

Scansion

Sestet

Sonnet

English

Italian (Petrarchan)

Stanza

Stress

Villanelle

Volta (shift)