Glossary of Poetic Terms
What is "Synecdoche"?
And other terms you have forgotten.
a narrative or visual representation with an underlying meaning, moral message, or political significance.
the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words.
a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.
a technique in which successive phrases or lines begin with the same words, often resembling a litany.
Contrasting or combining two terms, phrases, or clauses with opposite meanings.
a direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, a god, or a person not living or present.
the repetition of similar vowel sounds.
the spacing of repeated consonant sounds with the last repeated consonant sound separated by a vowel.
poetry that does not rhyme but follows a regular meter, most commonly iambic pentameter