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accent confessional poetry heroic couplet accentual-­syllabic verse consonance heroic verse accentual verse convention hexameter air couplet hiatus alba cross rhyme homoeoteleuton alexandrine dactyl hymn alliteration decasyllable hyperbaton ambiguity decorum hyperbole anacoluthon deixis hypotaxis and parataxis anacreontic demotion iambic anadiplosis devotional poetry idyll analogy. See METAPHOR; dialogue image SIMILE; SYMBOL diction imagery anapest dimeter indeterminacy anaphora dozens In Memoriam stanza antistrophe dramatic monologue. See internal rhyme antithesis MONOLOGUE invective antonomasia dramatic poetry irony aporia dream vision isocolon and parison apostrophe eclogue kenning assonance ekphrasis lament asyndeton elegiac distich leonine rhyme, verse audience. See PERFORMANCE elegiac stanza letter, verse. See VERSE EPISTLE ballad elegy limerick ballad meter, hymn meter elision line beat ellipsis litotes Biblical poetry. See HYMN; encomium love poetry PSALM English prosody lyric blank verse enjambment lyric sequence blason envoi madrigal blues epic masculine and feminine broken rhyme epigram metaphor burlesque. See PARODY epitaph meter caesura epithalamium metonymy canon epithet mimesis carpe diem epode mock epic, mock heroic catachresis euphony monologue catalexis eye rhyme narrative poetry catalog fabliau narrator. See PERSONA; VOICE chain rhyme foot (modern) near rhyme chiasmus form nonsense verse Christabel meter fourteener octave closure free verse octosyllable colon genre ode complaint georgic onomatopoeia composition. See POET; haiku, western ottava rima VERSIFICATION hemistich palinode composition by field hendecasyllable panegyric conceit hendiadys paradox concrete poetry heptameter paralipsis

xi For general queries, contact [email protected] © Copyright, Princeton University Press. No part of this book may be distributed, posted, or reproduced in any form by digital or mechanical means without prior written permission of the publisher. xii Alphabetical List of Entries parallelism rich rhyme synaesthesia parody riddle syncope paronomasia rime riche. See RHYME; RICH synecdoche pastoral RHYME syntax, poetic pathetic fallacy rondeau tercet pattern poetry. See CONCRETE sapphic terza rima POETRY; VISUAL POETRY satire tetrameter pentameter scansion tone performance scheme trimeter periphrasis septet trochaic persona sestet trope personification sestina ut pictura poesis poem signifying variable foot poet simile verisimilitude. See MIMESIS poetics, Western Skeltonic verse drama. See DRAMATIC poetry slang. See DICTION POETRY poiēsis song verse epistle point of view. See PERSONA; sonnet verse novel. See NARRATIVE VOICE sonnet sequence POETRY polyptoton sound verse paragraph polysyndeton sound poetry verse systems. See METER prose poem speaker. See PERSONA; VOICE versification prosody Spenserian stanza vers libre prosopopoeia split lines villanelle proverb spoken word. See virelai psalm PERFORMANCE visual arts and poetry. See pun. See PARONOMASIA spondee CONCRETE POETRY; pyrrhic sprung rhythm EKPHRASIS; UT PICTURA quantity stanza POESIS; VISUAL POETRY quatrain stichomythia visual poetry refrain strophe visual rhyme. See EYE RYHME repetition style voice rhyme sublime volta rhyme royal syllabic verse zeugma rhyme scheme symbol rhythm synaeresis

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