Poetry Vocab

• stanza
• sonnet
• Petrarchan
• Shakespearean
• Iambic pentameter
• Iambic hexameter
• Meter
• quatrain
• haiku
• simile
• metaphor
• line
• epigram
• villanelle
• diction
• epic
• sestina
• personification
• alliteration
• consonance
• assonance
• ultimate/penultimate
• oxymoron
• paradox
• allusion
• allegory
• tone/voice
• trajectory/development
• volta
• narrative
• repetition
• rhyme
• rhyme scheme
• slant
• sprung rhyme
• emphasis
• double entendre
• denotation/connotation
• hyperbole
• poet/speaker
• syntax
• grammar/punctuation
• POV
• voice
• tone
• mood
• form (how)/content (what)