Poetry Terms from Tests

Any violation of prescriptive grammatical rules

Extra accented syllables at the beginning of a verse before the real meter of the line begins

The 19th century literary movement of Oscar Wilde, known for the use of "art for art's sake"

A work of fiction, a major concern of which is the nature of fiction itself

The immediate subject of a metaphor, "carries" the meaning of the tenor

A stanza of 3 lines - a triplet - in which each line ends with the same line

The semblance of truth

An word meaning "smoked" that refers to a quality of smokily obscuring details in a painting

The use of superfluous syllables or words; may consist of needless repetition or too many words

An ancient Scandinavian poet, especially of the Viking period

Pleasing sounds

Full or partial repetition of a word, phrase, or clause throughout a stanza or poem

Art that admits that it is not transparent but opaque - not life or even like life

Another word for metalepsis

A form of light verse that concerns a person, whose name makes up the first line of a quatrain

In modern use, any poet; technically refers to the early poets of the Celts

A work having to do with the land of the dead, especially a visit by a living person

A piece intended to excite laughter and depending less on plot than on improbable situations

The ultimate or ulterior intentional subject of a metaphor

The concurrent response of two or more of the senses to the stimulation of one. Ex: loud shirt

A sketch or brief narrative characterized by precision and delicacy

The use of a pair of opposites to mean a whole. Ex: the long and the short of it = whole story.

The adding of one figure to another, that the meaning of the statement is reduced to nonsense

Repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive syllables

One or more words repeated at intervals in a poem. More regular than Repetend.

Stressed, Unstressed

The interchange of position between sounds in a word. Ex: "pretty" sounding like "perty"

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A modern movement that promotes brevity, economy, and modesty; "less is more"

A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures