Poetry Terms
the narrative voice of the poem
Speaker
During this movement, nature was valued, not industrialization.
Romanticism
the number of lines in a sonnet
14
It tells a story
Narrative Poem
An elaborate and extended metaphor or simile that links two typically unrelated things
Conceit
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
Assonance
Ibsen wrote during this period.
Realism
This type of sonnet follows the ABBA ABBA structure.
Petrarchan
A poem that concerns the natural world, rural life, shepherds, and landscape.
Pastoral Poem
A rhetorical figure embodying a seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true
Paradox
the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot answer, something nonliving or inanimate.
Apostrophe
Time when likely to see Stream of Consciousness narration, pessimism, and a freer form overall.
Modernism
This type of sonnet follows the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG structure.
Shakespearean
A poem that reflects upon death or loss
Elegy
A character who acts as contrast to another character, and in doing so brings out the qualities of the initial character
Foil
A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.
Enjambment
Popular poets of this time include Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Byron, Shelley, or Coleridge.
Romanticism
The "turning point" between lines 8 and 9.
Volta
A tribute to a subject or sentiment
Ode
This type of narrator is all-knowing.
Omniscient
Iambic Pentameter
Popular during the 17th century, this stye of poetry focused on spiritual love and questions of religion and faith.
Metaphysical Poetry
The final two rhyming lines
Couplet
A broad category of poetry that concerns feelings and emotion.
Lyric Poetry
Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities.
Allegory