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Poetic Literary Terms

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Alliteration
Allusion
Analogy
Anaphora - repetition of word/phrase at beginning of successive clauses
Apostrophe - speaking directly to someone not present/dead or an inanimate object
Archetype - typical character/action/situation that represents universal patterns of human nature
Assonance - repetition of vowel sound
Blank verse - unrhymed iambic pentameter
Conceit - extended metaphor that compares two very distinct things
Connotation
Consonance - repetition of consonant sound
Couplet
Denotation Diction
Enjambment
Hyperbole
Imagery
Metaphor
Meter
Metonymy - one representative word stands for something else
Octave - verse form with eight lines, usually iambic pentamter
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Personification
Petrarchan sonnet
Quatrain
Sestet
Shakespearean
Sonnet
Simile
Soliloquy
Symbol
Synecdoche - part of something represents the whole
Syntax
Theme
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