| form | | Dictionary meanings of words |
| irony | | "have" and "wave" |
| onomatopoeia | | A group of three lines within a stanza or poem |
| connotation | | Poetry that has no regular rythmic pattern |
| lyric | | Unrhymed, five-stressed lines; the way Shakespeare's plays are written |
| hyperbole | | A type of poetry that is a personal statement evoking a mood or expressing a certain feeling |
| figurative language | | Non-literal expressions used to convey ideas and feelings more vividly |
| rhythm | | The poet's attitude |
| alliteration | | kind of figurative language that involves exaggeration |
| rhyme scheme | | A pause in a line of poetry |
| rhyme | | The feelings evoked by the words and images used in a poem |
| synecdoche | | "hiss" or "murmur" |
| quatrain | | The moon walked silently into the sky to kill the sun |
| stress | | A poetic form that celebrates the world of shepherds |
| assonance | | Dante's "Divine Comdey" and Milton's "Paradise Lost" |
| personification | | The prominence or emphasis given to certain words |
| tercet | | Two lines of poetry whose ending words rhyme |
| metre | | The sun toils like a fisherman |
| epic | | A figure of speech where a part is used for a whole, an individual for a class, or the reverse of these |
| tone | | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
| stanza | | The cat in the hat comes abck |
| couplet | | The obvious meaning of a phrase or passage is different from the meaning it is really intended to convey |
| denotation | | The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that we hear over several lines of poetry |
| pastoral | | lines in which the meaning leads you to run swiftly beyond the end of the line and into the next line to complete the syntax and the sense |
| imagery | | A fourline stanza |
| sonnet | | Like the closing of some aweful book, a too-long story |
| epic simile | | The appearance of a poem on the page or a reference to the structure of the poem |
| simile | | A formal poem lamenting the death of a person |
| eye rhyme | | Vivid description of an object or scene |
| elegy | | The recurrence of groups of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of poetry |
| free verse | | A group of lines forming a division of a poem |
| mood | | Strike a match against the cloud's brown rump |
| caesura | | A form of poetry that always has fourteen lines |
| run-on lines | | Secondary meanings of words |
| blank verse | | A comparison extending over many lines, in which the object is described at great length |
| metaphor | | Good Girl Gone Bad |
