14 Poetic Terms

Please define the following poetic terms. Also provide examples from the poems read and
discussed in the course pack. Or if you like, you can make up your own examples.

Image or concrete language:

Metaphor:

Simile:

Personification:

Persona Poem:

Synesthesia:

Alliteration:

Assonance:

Consonance:

Rhyme Scheme:

Stanza:

Enjambment:

Sonnet:

Turn or Volta: