Terms the CB Might Use! Metonymy: figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” or“count heads (or noses)” for “count people.” Synecdoche:a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, “the special” for the general or “the general for the special”, as in “ten sail” for “ten ships”.

Terms the CB Might Use! Blank Verse: Unrhymed iambic pentameter Free Verse: No regular rhythm, no pattern of rhyme Enjambment: The overflow of one line of poetry into subsequent lines.

Terms the CB Might Use! Petrarchan Sonnet: Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnet's rhyme scheme divides the poem's 14 lines into two parts, an octet (first eight lines) and a sestet (last six lines). The rhyme scheme for the octet is typically abbaabba. There are a few possibilities for the sestet, including cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdcdee.

Terms the CB Might Use! Shakespearean Sonnet: Form in which the rhyme scheme is abab,cdcd,efef,gg. This adaptation of the Italian model allowed for the sparser rhymes of the English language and also encouraged a "summing up" couplet at the end. This change probably contributed to the development of the sonnet as a dramatic form.

Terms the CB Might Use! Ode: a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion. (originally) a poem intended to be sung. Strophe: Any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from a stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern.

Terms the CB Might Use! Antistrophe: The second of two metrically corresponding systems in a poem. Compare Epode: The part of a lyric ode following the strophe and antistrophe and composing with them a triadic unit.

Terms the CB Might Use! Elegy: A mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. Dirge: A funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead Ballad: A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.

Terms the CB Might Use! Iamb: A foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love. Trochee: a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter, as in Booth led boldly with his big bass drum Dactyl: A foot of three syllables, one long followed by two short in quantitative meter, or one stressed followed by two unstressed in accentual meter, as in gently and humanly.

Terms the CB Might Use! Anapest: A foot of three syllables, two short followed by one long in quantitative meter, and two unstressed followed by one stressed in accentual meter, as in for the nonce. Spondee: A metrical foot consisting of two long syllables or stressed, as in White founts falling in the courts of the sun

Forms of Poetry Metaphysical: Highly intellectualized poetry written chiefly in 17th- century England. Less concerned with expressing feeling than with analyzing it, Metaphysical poetry is marked by bold and ingenious conceits (e.g., metaphors drawing sometimes forced parallels between apparently dissimilar ideas or things), complex and subtle thought, frequent use of paradox, and a dramatic directness of language, the rhythm of which derives from living speech.

Forms of Poetry Elizabethan: The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England, or poetry written in the English language.

Forms of Poetry Romantic: Romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural era which began in the mid/late-18th century as a reaction against the prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the day (Romantics favored more natural, emotional and personal artistic themes), also influenced poetry. Inevitably, the characterization of a broad range of contemporaneous poets and poetry under the single unifying name can be viewed more as an exercise in historical compartmentalization than an attempt to capture the essence of the actual ‘movement’.

Forms of Poetry Neoclassical: A revival in literature in the late 17th and 18th centuries, characterized by a regard for the classical ideals of reason, form, and restraint.

Forms of Poetry Modern: started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of Victorian poetry, with its emphasis on traditional formalism and ornate diction. In many respects, their criticism echoes what William Wordsworth wrote in Preface to Lyrical Ballads to instigate the Romantic movement in British poetry over a century earlier, criticizing the gauche and pompous school which then pervaded, and seeking to bring poetry to the layman.