10th Lit Poetry Terms

a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing

• apostrophe

• symbol

• allusion

• metaphor

the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently

• alliteration

• synecdoche

• couplet

• metonemy

a literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole

• Onomatopoeia

• Synecdoche

• Assonance

• Consonance

a pair of of lines of verse that usually rhyme and have a complete thought

• stanza

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• couplet

The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

• Synecdoche

• metaphor

• metonemy

• refrain

the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes

• Paradox

• Parallelism

• Onomatopoeia

• Anaphora

a resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels or between their consonants

• simile

• Parallelism

• alliteration

• Assonance

pleasing sound caused by the repetition of similar consonant sounds within groups of words or a literary work

• Assonance

• Synecdoche

• Consonance

• Juxtaposition

a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.

• stanza

• line

• simile

• couplet

The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza.

• Refrain

• inversion

• Reference

• ethos