Eng11 Poetry Vocabulary

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines

Ex: She sells seashells by the sea shore

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Denotation

Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

Ex:

I will try hard.

I will do my best.

I will be strong.

• Caesura

• Euphemism

• Anaphora

• Hyperbole

Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines

Ex: Try to light the fire

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Blank Verse

• Pun

Repeated of the same consonant two or more times in short succession

Ex: Some mammals are clammy.

• Denotation

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a poem (beats and feet)

• Meter

• Blank Verse

• Extended Metaphor

• Caesura

The simple repeating of a word, phrase, or sound within a poetical line or a poem.

Ex:

It is okay

to not be okay

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Connotation

The emotional, psychological, or social overtones of a word; its implications and associations apart from its literal meaning.

• Enjambment

• Stanza Forms

• Oxymoron

• Connotation

The dictionary definition of a word; its literal meaning apart from any associations or connotations

• Pun
• Alliteration
• Denotation
• Consonance

An understatement used to lessen the effect of a statement; substituting something innocuous for something that might be offensive or hurtful

• Euphemism
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Extended Metaphor

Continuing a comparison of two unlike things into the rest of the sentences that follow.

Ex:

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over the harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then, moves on.

• Repetition

• Extended Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Meter