Poetic Terminology

3. A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable
5. A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed syllable
7. A group of 3 lines in a poem, connected by rhyme or separated by a line break
9. A song-like narrative poem, often written with an ABCB rhyme scheme and in alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimetre
13. Rhyme within a line of poetry
14. The running on of one line to another
15. An abstract, secondary meaning of a word
17. A comparison between two things in which something is described as if it is another thing
18. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in close proximity
19. The characteristic being compared between two things in a metaphor
22. A collection of words that share a common idea or theme
24. A poem with no regular pattern in rhyme or metre
25. A person in a 3rd person poem

1. A comparison between two things in which something is described as being 'like' or 'as' something else
2. A repeated sound at the start of two or more words in close proximity
4. A sonnet written in iambic pentameter, consisting of an octet and a sestet
5. The object being described in a metaphor
6. A pause within a line of poetry
8. The narrator in a 1st person poem
10. A collection of lines in a poem, separated by a line break
11. A sonnet written in iambic pentameter, consisting of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet
12. A writer's choice of words
15. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in close proximity
16. The predominant emotion of a poem, created through the writer's use of tone
20. Two opposing ideas placed in close proximity to highlight the difference between them
21. A non-rhyming poem written in iambic pentameter
23. A strong pause at the end of a line