Image
sensory image
Two words sharing similar, but not identical sounds
Near or Slant Rhyme
First form intended to be read silently.
The sonnet
a traditional Japanese literary form that combines a prose text with one or more haiku
the haibun
a poetic device where a sentence, phrase, or clause continues from one line or stanza to the next without a punctuation mark at the line break
enjambment
Images arranged in a list
accumulative imagery
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words
Alliteration
e.g., AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB
rhyme scheme
A Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and occasionally imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The second and fourth lines of the final stanza repeat the first and third lines of the first stanza.
The pantoum
An indirect, unexplained reference to an external person, place, event, work of literature, or art that an author expects the reader to recognize
Allusion
Author of "The Hollow Men"
T.S. Eliot
Author of "I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
Emily Dickinson
"The sky wasn’t black or blue but the green of a dying night"
My Brother at 3am by Natalie Diaz
"once, my mother accused me of throwing alcohol and gasoline on my emotions"
burning haibun, torrin a. greathouse
a short quotation, phrase, or excerpt placed right below the title and before the first line of the poem
epigraph
Two unlike images placed side by side to create friction or new meaning.
juxtaposition
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
Author of the lines: "Voltas of acoustics, instinct & metaphor. It is not enough / To love you. It is not enough to want you destroyed."
Terrance Hayes
a form of found poetry where a poet takes an existing, pre-written text—such as a book, newspaper article, legal document, or poem—and removes, blacks out, or obscures most of the words to reveal a brand-new poem
erasure or blackout poetry
a storytelling and comedic technique where a creator sets up a familiar pattern, genre trope, or logical assumption—and then deliberately delivers a different outcome
subversion
"Not a cruel song, no, no, not cruel at all. This song
Is sweet. It is sweet. The heart dies of this sweetness."
Song by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Major theme in Sueyeun Juliette Lee's "After Noise"
Grief
Stressed followed by unstressed (/ u) – DUM-da (e.g., top-ic)
Trochee
When It Is Over it Will Be Over is inspired by a line from what author?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The moment an image shifts from literal description into metaphor or insight
poetic turn