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A type of emotional songlike poetry, distinguished from dramatic and

narrative poetry
A form of poetry that tells a story, often making use of the voices of a
narrator and characters as well.
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme
schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often
elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
A long, narrative poem that is usually about heroic deeds and events
that are significant to the culture of the poet.
A poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person,
in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while
describing a particular situation or series of events.
A sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone
who is dead.
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene, typically an
idealized or unsustainable one.
Light poetry, or light verse, is poetry that attempts to be humorous..
A 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5
syllables.
A humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines
rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear.
A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed
syllables or (in Greek and Latin) a long syllable between two short syllables.
A trisyllabic metrical foot having an unaccented or short syllable between
two accented or long syllables.
A break between words within a metrical foot.
(In verse) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of
a line, couplet, or stanza.
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more
words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs.
When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of
the line or in the middle of the next.
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
A rhyme of final stressed syllables (e.g., blow / flow, confess / redress ).
A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed
syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous .)
A rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match,
however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed
syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g.,
penitence, reticence ).

27. Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This

repetition often takes place in quick succession such as in pitter, patter.
28. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or
closely connected words.
29. Boom.
30. The quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious
combination of words.
31. A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
32. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action
to which it is not literally applicable.
33. A comparison using the words like or as.
34. A kind of metaphor that compares two very unlike things in a surprising and
clever way. Often, conceits are extended metaphors that dominate an entire
passage or poem.
35. The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something
nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
36. Figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract
idea, or a thing.
37. The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing
meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.
38. A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice
versa.
39. Use of over-exaggeration for the purpose of creating emphasis or being
humorous.
40. Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative
of its contrary.
41. The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies
the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
42. The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
43. Use of words to make people think of images.
44. A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound)
reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems
senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.
45. A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in
conjunction.
46. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it
explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
47. A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.
48. The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition;
a topic.
49. A dramatic situation is a situation, in a narrative or dramatic work, in which
people (or "people") are involved in conflicts that solicit the audience's
empathetic involvement in their predicament.