Poetry Vocabulary Part 1

A unit in poetry that consists of any words arranged in a row.

• poem

• speaker

• line

• stanza

A technique in which successive phrases or lines begin with the same words.

• Poetic foot

• Anaphora

• Metonymy

• Iamb

A four-line stanza or grouping of four lines of verse.

• tercet

• cinquain

• couplet

• quatrain

A basic repeated sequence of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.

• Iamb

• Poetic foot

• Enjambment

• Anaphora

A word or phrase that replaces the name of an object or concept for another to which it is related.

• Anaphora

• Metonymy

• Enjambment

• Iamb

A piece of writing that conveys a message through language, emphasizing language's musical qualities.

• iamb

• speaker

• stanza

• poem

A specific line or lines that are repeated in a poem.

• Refrain

• Tercet

• Couplet

• Quatrain

a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming or connected by rhyme

• quatrain

• couplet

• cinquain

• tercet

A metrical foot consisting of one short syllable (unstressed) followed by one long syllable (stressed).

• Poetic foot

• Iamb

• Iambic pentameter

• Metonymy

The continuation of a phrase or sentence from one line to another without an end-stop.

• Enjambment

• Anaphora

• Metonymy

• Iamb