Associated with Poetry
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
English and Italian Sonnet
Lyric, personal lyric, dramatic lyric
Ballad
Lyrical Ballad
Heroic Couplet
Blank Verse
Elegy
See Verse forms of the Romantic Era
Associated with Poetry and Prose
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
Associated with the Novel
Epistolary novel, narrative perspective/narrator, flashback/flashforward