Musical Devices
Rhyme
Comparison of two unlike things
Metaphor
How the poem is organized
Structure
A poem not tied down to strict patterns of old poetry - associated with the contemporary movement
Free Verse
A fourteen line poem with a very specific structure. Each line is 10 syllables.
ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG
Sonnet
The repetition of initial sounds across several words.
Alliteration
A statement that (most of the time) contradicts itself
Paradox
The unit of structure in a poem
Line
Hard to define - can be summed up as the sonic patterns of syllables within a poem - how it "moves"
Rhythm
Broadly: When a poem develops a story
Narrative Poem
When a collection of sounds sound particularly good together
Euphony
Motif
When change occurs in the development of a poem
Turn
Typical unit of rhythmic measurement - two syllables.
Foot
A short poem that pays extra attention to the sonic elements
Lyric Poem
The repetition of identical vowel sounds across different words
Assonance (Consonant equivalent is Consonance)
A reference to an outside piece of work
Allusion
When a line can both stand on its own and contribute to the work as a whole
Line Integrity
A pause in the rhythm in the poem - typically coming in the middle of a line and with a punctuation mark.
Caesura
Elegy
When the expected rhyme sound is changed - still close to what it's "supposed" to be
Slant Rhyme
When an object or symbol is addressed AS the thing it represents ('the bottle' to mean alcohol)
Metonymy
When a line brings about a very clear, definite, end, typically with a closing piece of punctuation.
End-Stopped Line
Analyzing verse through meter
Scansion
Didactic Writing