Heidecker Poetry Terms

What is the term for the repetition of similar vowel sounds?

What is the term for a poem meditating on death or another solemn theme?

What is the term for words that are pleasant to the ear?

What is the term for a poem designed to teach a lesson?

What is the term for the order of words in a sentence?

What is the term that describes the repetition of similar, ending consonant sounds?

"All hands on deck" is an example of what poetic term?

What is the term for two words whose rhyme is exact?

What is the term for a group of two or three syllables in a certain stress pattern?

What is the term for harsh, unpleasant sounds in poetry?

What is the term for a poetic foot with one stressed/one unstressed syllable?

Identifying the stressed/unstressed syllables in a poem is done to examine a poem's _________________?

What is the term for an author's word choice in a literary work?

What is the term for poetry inspired by artwork?

What is the term for sensory details in a work?

What is the term for a fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter?

What is the term for a pause in a poetic line?

What is the term that gives inanimate objects human characteristics?

What is the term for a poetic line with punctuation at the end?

What is a figure of speech that substitutes a closely related object for the object itself?

What is the term for six lines of poetry?

What is the term for a short poem that expresses thoughts and feelings?

What is the way one establishes the meter of a poem?

What is the term for poetry that takes the form of its subject?

What is a term that represents the opposite of hyperbole?

What is the term for the "analysis" of a poem?

What is the term for the manner in which the narrator expresses their attitude?

What is the term for a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression?

What is an elaborate analogy or comparison that extends through multiple lines of a poem?

What is the term for a type of rhyme that looks like it should rhyme but it doesn't?

What is the term for an unstressed/stressed poetic foot?

What is the term for a 19 line poem that repeats the same two lines alternately?

What is a term that appears to be contradictory but turns out to be true?

What is the term for the "turn" or shift in a poem?

What is the term that is used when a person (present or absent) is directly addressed?

What is the name of a poetic line with two unstressed feet?

What is the term for the measurement of a poem's rhythm?

What is the term for poetry not written in traditional meter?

What is the term for a continuation of a poetic line onto the next line?

What is the term for two rhymed, iambic pentameter lines?

What is the term for a poem which tells a story?

What is the term for poetic meter with four feet per line?

What is the term for a line of meter with one foot?

What is the term for an eight line stanza?