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Some Poetry Terms to know

Lines: Enjambment/enjambed line


End-stopped line

Sound qualities: Alliteration (Seven silver swans )


Assonance (ex. dance/pant/chance/elephant/answer)
Consonance (ex. rider/horder; absent/habit/inhibit)
Refrain
Rhyme/ Rhyme scheme/Full Rhyme/ Half-rhyme /eye-rhyme

Figurative language: Image


Metaphor
Simile
Conceit
Symbol
Allusion

Stanza forms: Couplet, Heroic Couplet


Tercet
Quatrain, Heroic Quatrain
Quintain
Sestain or Sestet
Rhyme Royal
Octave/ Ottava rima
Spenserian Stanza

Prosody: Stress /Accent


Feet
Accentual Verse
Syllabic Verse
Blank Verse
Free Verse

Types of feet: Iamb/ Trochee/ Spondee/Dactyl/Anapest


# of feet per line: Monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter

Fixed Forms : Sonnet, Villanelle, Sestina, Ballad,

Modes: Elegy, Pastoral, Dramatic monologue, Lyric, Narrative

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