English 1- 10th grade Poem Terms

Something places in an inapropriete time

• anagram

• anachronism

• aliteration

• epigraph

Rearange letters of a word to make a new word

• anagram

• anachorism

• lament

• motif

Harsh/Discordant sounds

• Anachorism

• Cacophony

• Alitaration

• epitah

Repetitive consonant sounds in a sentence/text

• cacophony

• anagram

• epitaph

• aliteration

Inscription on a toubstone

• prose

• epitaph

• prose

• lament

Non-literal use of langauge

• Figure of speech

• free verse

• prose

• rhetoric

Non rhyming lines

• Figure of speech

• verse

• prose

• free verse

Poetry

• verse

• prose

• free verse

• epitaph

Ordinary written language

• prose

• verse

• free verse

• epitaph

Poem praising God, often sung

• hymn

• hyperbole

• epitaph

• prose