Poetry Terms

 

1. anapestic meter
2. apostrophe
3. approximate rhyme
4. assonance
5. ballad
6. blank verse
7. caesura
8. couplet
9. dactylic meter
10. didactic poetry
11. elegy
12. end rhyme
13. end-stopped rhyme
14. enjambment
15. feminine rhyme
16. foot
17. free verse
18. haiku
19. heroic couplet
20. iambic meter
21. internal rhyme
22. Italian sonnet
23. limerick
24. lyric poem
25. masculine rhyme
26. metaphysical poem
27. metonymy
28. octave
29. ode
30. pastoral poem
31. prose poem
32. sestina
33. Shakespearean sonnet
34. sonnet
35. spondee
36. synecdoche
37. tercet
38. terza rima
39. trochaic meter
40. villanelle