Keystone Poetic and Literary Terms Review

Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or ends of words

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like," "as," "than," or "resembles"

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

• hyperbole

the voice talking in a poem

• speaker

• narrator

• stanza

• figure of speech

poems that tell stories

• lyric

• narrative

• figurative

• free verse

a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech

• stanza

• ballad

• blank verse

• refrain

song-like poems that express a speaker's thoughts or feelings

• lyric

• allegory

• narrative

• ballad

a line of poetry made up of five iambs

• iambic tetrameter

• iambic trimeter

• trochaic pentameter

• iambic pentameter

dictionary meaning of a word

• connotation

• denotation

• allegory

• refrain

poetry without regular meter or rhyme scheme

• iambic pentameter

• haiku

• free verse

• blank verse

one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable

• iamb

• spondee

• trochee

• anapest