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From the American Academy of Poets (Poets.org)<\/em><\/h3>\n

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Allegory<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a narrative or visual representation with an underlying meaning, moral message, or political significance.<\/p>\n

Alliteration<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words.<\/p>\n

Allusion<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.<\/p>\n

Anaphora<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a technique in which successive phrases or lines begin with the same words, often resembling a litany.<\/p>\n

Aphorism<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a short, pithy statement offering instruction, truth, or opinion; like a maxim or an adage.<\/p>\n

Assonance:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the repetition of similar vowel sounds.<\/p>\n

Ballad<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a plot-driven song with one or more characters and often constructed in quatrain stanzas.<\/p>\n

Blank Verse<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0poetry\u00a0that does not rhyme but follows a regular meter, most commonly iambic pentameter.<\/p>\n

Canto<\/strong><\/a>: a unit of division or subsection found in epics or long narrative poetry.<\/p>\n

Couplet<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a two-line stanza, or two lines of verse, rhymed or unrhymed.<\/p>\n

Elegy<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss.<\/p>\n

Enjambment<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0the continuation of a sentence or clause across one poetic line break.<\/p>\n

Epic<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of persons.<\/p>\n

Epigram<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a short, pithy saying, usually in verse, often with a quick, satirical twist at the end.<\/p>\n

Epigraph<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme.<\/p>\n

Erasure<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a form of found poetry wherein a poet takes an existing text and erases, blacks out, or otherwise obscures a large portion of the text, creating a wholly new work from what remains.<\/p>\n

Free Verse<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0open form\u00a0<\/strong>poetry not dictated by an established form or meter and often influenced by the rhythms of speech.<\/p>\n

Hymn<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a lyric poem of devotion or reverence, typically written as a prayer addressing a deity or deities, or personified subjects.<\/p>\n

Iambic Pentameter<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a rising meter form consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed or accented syllables as five iambic feet per line.<\/p>\n

Idiom<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a short expression that is peculiar to a language, people, or place that conveys a figurative meaning without a literal interpretation of the words used in the phrase.<\/p>\n

Imagery<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0language in a poem representing a sensory experience, including visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory.<\/p>\n

Inaugural Poem<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a poem read at a\u00a0Presidential inauguration<\/p>\n

Line<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a fundamental unit in verse, carrying meaning both horizontally across the page and vertically from one line to the next.<\/p>\n

Lyric Poetry<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a non-narrative poem, often\u00a0with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker\u2019s personal emotions and feelings.<\/p>\n

Metaphor<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a comparison between essentially unlike things, or the application of a name or description to something to which it is not literally applicable.<\/p>\n

Meter<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse.<\/p>\n

Negative Capability<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a phrase coined by John Keats to describe the poet\u2019s ability to live with uncertainty and mystery.<\/p>\n

Ode<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a poem celebrating an event, a person, or a thing that is not present.<\/p>\n

Onomatopoeia<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0the use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes.<\/p>\n

Pastoral<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>referring to a creative tradition as well as individual work idealizing rural life and landscapes.<\/p>\n

Poetic Diction<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>the language, including word choice and syntax, that sets poetry apart from other forms of writing.<\/p>\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a form of writing vital to culture, art, and life.<\/p>\n

Point of View:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the perspective or viewpoint of the speaker in a poem.<\/p>\n

Proverb<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a short statement or saying that expresses a basic truth.<\/p>\n

Prosody<\/strong>:<\/a>\u00a0the systematic study of meter, rhythm, and intonation of language found in poetry, but also prose.<\/p>\n

Repetition<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>the poetic technique of repeating the same word or phrase multiple times within a poem or work.<\/p>\n

Rhyme<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>the correspondence of sounds in words or lines of verse.<\/p>\n

Simile<\/strong><\/a>: a comparison between two essentially unlike things using words \u201csuch as,\u201d \u201clike,\u201d and \u201cas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanza<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>a grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem.<\/p>\n

Syntax<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>the arrangement of language and order of words used to convey the poem\u2019s content.<\/p>\n

Tone<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0a literary device that conveys the author\u2019s attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem.<\/p>\n

Voice:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>an expression denoting the comprehensive style of a speaker adopted by the author in a poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the American Academy of Poets (Poets.org)   Allegory:\u00a0a narrative or visual representation with an underlying meaning, moral message, or political significance. Alliteration:\u00a0the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words. Allusion:\u00a0a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}