Hnrs. 10 Poetry Terms

Lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech, not adhering to any specific rhyming or meter pattern

• Free verse

• Villanelle

• Euphony

• Voice

The atmosphere the author creates using literary devices

• Mood

• Tone

• Conntations

• Paradox

The author’s attitude toward the subject

• Tone

• Mood

• Connotations

• Shift

Sentence structure

• Syntax

• Euphony

• Meter

• Diction

Word Choice

• Diction

• Syntax

• Oxymoron

• Sonnet

A point where the piece takes a different route in rhyme, topic, tone, subject...

• Shift

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Voice

A form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain with the first and the third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas

• Villanelle

• Sonnet

• Meter

• Synecdoche

A poem of fourteen lines using s wide range of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. The English form usually ends with a couplet

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

• Free Verse

• Meter

The use of a part of something to represent a whole idea

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

• Symbol

• Irony

It has two levels of meaning, a literal level and a figurative level. It represents something else beyond itself.

• Symbol

• Idiom

• Synecdoche

• Irony