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