Please look up the following terms in a good glossary: The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms, The Glossary of Literary Terms edited by Abrams and Harpham, and/or the glossary at the back of our anthology. I will add terms throughout the semester.
Prosody, meter, verse, scansion
accent, syllable
Iamb/iambic foot, trochee/trochaic foot, anapest/anapestic foot, dactyl/dactylic foot, spondee/spondaic foot, pyrrhic foot
Monometer, dimeter, trimester, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, an Alexandrine, heptameter
Caesura, end-stopped lines, run-on lines/enjambment
Alliteration, assonance, consonance, euphony, cacophony, onomatopoeia
Rhyme, including near rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, rising rhythm and falling rhythm
Stanza, tercet, quatrain, couplet
Poetic Forms, including fixed forms
English and Italian Sonnet
Lyric, personal lyric, dramatic lyric, dramatic monologue
Ballad
Hymn
Heroic Couplet
Blank Verse
Ode (18th-Century and Romantic; Regular and Irregular)
Rhetorical Figures and Figures of Speech: alliteration, chiasmus , antithesis, anaphora, hyperbole, oxymoron, metaphor and simile, symbol, parallelism, personification, poetic diction
Sound Devices: assonance, cacophony, consonance, dissonance, euphony
Other important terms: apostrophe, rhetorical questions, synaesthesia
General Literary Concepts: allusion and intertextuality, affect, catharsis, close reading, diction (i.e. word choice), figures of speech, genres, Romanticism, Neoclassicism and “wit”