ENG201Y: poetic terminology
You should be familiar with these terms, either from class or (more likely) from the assigned readings in Adams and Abrams. A few of the terms appear only in NPEPP. You may be asked to define these terms at some point in your academic lives, but in your ENG201Y incarnations you are much more likely to be asked to comment on the poetic effect of the concept denoted by the term in the context of a poem which we have studied. Don’t forget the online glossary of poetic terms:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/terminology.html
accentual meter
accentual-syllabic meter
affricative consonants (Adams 34)
("ch", "dg", "j")
alliteration
alternating rhyme (abab)
ambiguity
anaphora
antithesis
apostrophe ("Thou ... bride...")
archaism
aspirate (/h/)
assonance
assonant rhyme
aubade (NPEPP)
auditory imagery
binary meter
(e.g., iamb/trochee)
blank verse
blason (NPEPP)
broken rhyme (Adams 202)
caesura
catalogue
closed couplets
coinage or neologism
conceit
connotation (NPEPP)
consonance
consonant rhyme
consonants (Adams 34 classifies)
couplet
couplet or opposed quatrain (aabb)
denotation
dental consonants
elegiac (heroic) quatrain
elegy (Abrams, NPEPP)
ellipsis
end-stopped
English sonnet (Abrams)
enjambment
envelope quatrain (abba)
epic (Abrams, NPEPP)
epic question
epithet
epistrophe
extra-syllable ending (feminine rhyme)
feminine (extra-syllable) ending/rhyme
foot
forced rhyme (Abrams)
fricative (f,v)
glide (y, w)
gustatory imagery (Abrams)
guttural consonants (k, g)
heptasyllabic
heroic couplets
heroic quatrain (abab) (Abrams)
heterometric (NPEPP)
hyperbole
iamb(ic)
identical rhyme
imperfect rhyme
implicit metaphor (Abrams)
internal rhyme
inversion
irony
Italian sonnet (Abrams)
kinesthetic imagery
liquid consonants (l, r)
masculine (one-syllable) ending/rhyme
metaphor
metonymy
meter
monosyllable
nasal (n,m,ng)
octave
octosyllabics
ode (Abrams, NPEPP)
olfactory imagery
one-syllable ending
onomatopoiea
opposed couplet: see couplet
ottava rima
oxymoron
paradox
parallelism
past participle
(e.g., "bent", "spent")
pentameter
perfect rhyme
personification
Petrarchan/Italian sonnet (Abrams)
ploce
plosive consonants (Adams 34)
(e.g., /p/, /d/)
polyptoton
polysemy ("diversity of meaning")
polysyllabic
present participle
(e.g., "is running")
pun
pyrrhic
quatrain
rhetorical question
rhyme
rhythm
satire (Abrams, NPEPP)
sestet
Shakespearean/English sonnet
sibillant (s,z))
simile
sonnet
speaker (=persona)
spondee/spondaic
stanza
stanzaic verse
stichic
stops (=plosives)
submerged metaphor (Adams)
substitution
symbol
synecdoche
synesthesia (Abrams, NPEPP)
tactile imagery
tenor (Abrams)
tetrameter
thematic structures
temporal
logical
associative
random/paratactic
thermal imagery
trochee/trochaic
vehicle (Abrams)
verse paragraph
villanelle (NPEPP)
voiced consonant
(e.g., /b/, /d/, /g/)
voiceless consonant
(e.g., /p/, /t/, /k/)
vowel
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