The repetition of consonant sounds.
Metonymy
Consonance
Ode
A reflective poem that laments the loss of someone.
Elegy
Foot
Rhythm
A phrase or line recurring at intervals.
Scansion
Simile
Refrain
A strong pause within a line of verse.
Personification
Caesura
Speaker
A pair of consecutive rhymed lines within a poem.
Couplet
Stanza
Refrain
A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Symbolism
Trope
Sonnet
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
Valediction
Meter
Tone
Visually descriptive or figurative language in a poem.
Imagery
Anaphora
Beat
A brief witty or satirical poem.
Binary
Epigram
Blank verse
The study of versification, such as meter, rhyme, and the sound and pattern of words.
Allegory
Chiasmus
Prosody
Poetry that does not have a regular rhythm.
Free verse
Alliteration
Couplet
Word choice in poetry.
Meter
Octave
Diction
The repetition of vowel sounds.
Enjambed line
Assonance
Irony
A traditional theme or motif.
Topos
Elision
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which a 'part' of something represents the 'whole'.
Sonnet
Sestet
Synecdoche
The high point of tension or intensity in the plot.
Heroic couplet
Climax
Quatrain
A long narrative poem depicts the adventures of a hero.
Epic
Imagery
Theme
The author's attitude toward the subject and characters of a work.
Ballad
Assonance
Tone
A comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
Allegory
Metaphor
Rhyme
An act or utterance of farewell.
Valediction
Personification
Epigram