Poetical Terms

• abstract language
• accent
• allegory
• alliteration
• allusion
• anaphora
• antithesis
• assonance
• aubade
• blank verse
• boutes-rimes
• bucolic poetry
• cacaphony
• cadence
• canto
• cesura
• chanson de geste
• chiasmus
• conceit
• concrete language
• connotation
• consonance
• corrupted form
• dead metaphor
• denotation
• didactic
• dissonance
• dithyramb
• doggerel
• duende
• envoy
• epigraph
• epistrophe
• euphony
• explication
• figuration
• figurative language
• figures of speech
• form
• fragmentation
• imagery
• inversion
• irony
• juxtaposition
• kenning
• line
• litotes
• meiosis
• metaphor
• metonymy
• negative capability
• objective correlative
• onomatopoeia
• oulipo
• oxymoron
• paralipsis
• personification
• poem
• poet
• poetry
• prosody
• pun
• rhetoric
• rhetorical devises
• schemes
• sentence
• sentence fragment
• sequence
• setting
• simile
• speaker
• subject
• substitution
• symbol
• synecdoche
• syntax
• theme
• tone
• trimeter
• trochee
• tropes
• form variation
• verse
• voice
• word