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”