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Harmonic meter e.g. flying high
What is euphony?
An extended metaphor for the metaphyiscal set. (think John Donne)
What is a conceit?
A coming of age story.
What is a bildungsroman?
A poem where the speaker reveals an inner truth through speech.
What is a dramatic monologue?
A form of personification that focuses on emotions.
What is a pathetic fallacy?
Pairs of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter (hint Strephon's style)
What is a heroic couplet?
An understatement with a double negative. e.g. it's not the worst thing I have ever eaten
What are litotes?
What is in medias res?
A long poem that celebrates a series of heroic challenges.
What is an epic?
Addressing an inanimate object. Also the name of a punctuation mark.
What is apostrophe?
Consonants at the end of a line rhyme e.g. chill-tulle
What is half-rhyme?
When a word stands for a concept. e.g. stick it to the man or attack the crown
What is metonomy?
When the story begins and ends with the same narrative.
What is envelope method?
A poem that mourns the loss of a person or experience.
What is an elegy?
A device that repeats words or phrases in a series.
e.g. we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground
What is anaphora?
The system of annotating meter in poetry.
What is scansion?
The part stands for the whole. e.g. boots on the ground; all hands on deck
What is synecdoche?
What is an intercalary chapter?
A poem about morning.
What is an aubade?
Having a godlike presence. e.g. in Pope's the The Rape of the Lock, the hair ascends to the heavens
What is apotheosis?
Line that stresses both syllables e.g. heyday and headache
What is spondee?
When the comparison moves across senses. e.g. velvety smile
What is synethesia?
Hinting with words at untold truths.
What is paralipsis?
A poem with three triplets and a quatrain.
What is a villanelle?
Repeated words whose inversion reverses meaning.
e.g. Fair is foul, foul is fair.
What is chiasmus?