| A | B |
|---|
| Poetry | anything written in meter |
| Sonnet | a poem with 14 lines; two warieties include Shakespearean and Petrarchan |
| Lyric Poem | a short poem |
| Speaker | the "person" not to be confused with the poet |
| Syntax | the order of words to create phrases and sentences |
| Image | a sensation- there are five kinds if you don't see dead people |
| Metaphor | a literary devices that compares one thing to another |
| Symbol | something in a poem that carries meaning on the litteral level and also stands for something on the figurative level |
| Universal Symbol | an object that carries the same meaning in many cultures |
| Literary Symbol | an object that carries meaning only within a particular literary work |
| Conventional Symbol | an object that carries the same meaning only within a particular culture |
| Extended Metapor | a comparison that extends beyond a single line of poetry |
| Prosody | the study of meter |
| Meter | the measurment of a poem's stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Rhythm | the musical quality of a poem established by stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Rhyme | the repitition of sounds in a poem |
| Internal Rhyme | rhyme between a word within a line and another word at the end of the line or within another line |
| Feminine Rhyme | end rhymes of two syllables with the accent on the second to last syllable |
| Enjambment | the continuation of the sense and gramatical structure beyond the end of a line or verse |
| Genre | a group of poems usually based on similar formal structures |
