Some (not all) Poetry Terms:


poem

subject

theme

carpe diem

epic

ballad

literary

lyric poem

speaker

ode

elegy

aubade

pastoral

parody

stanza

couplet

terza rima

quatrain

epigram

blank verse

sonnet

Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet

Shakespearean (English) sonnet

haiku

villanelle

open form/free verse

concrete poem

diction

rhyme

alliteration

assonance

onomotopoeia

rhythm

scansion

meter

stress

foot

iamb

persona

imagery

figures of speech

metaphor

simile

personification

conceit

hyperbole

understatement

apostrophe

symbol

paradox

ambiguity

Dramatic Monologue

Caesura

Iambic Pentameter