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Imagism
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Movement in modern poetry stressing terseness and concrete imagery. Imagists were a group of early twentieth century American poets
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Persona
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Narrator created by the writer to tell a story; in Greek tragedy, a persona was a mask worn by an actor
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Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds in a series of words
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Ballad
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Narrative poem, rooted in an oral tradition, usually arranged in quatrains rhyming abcb and containing a refrain
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Poem
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A piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical
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Narrative
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The "Storytelling" of a piece of literature; the forward-moving recounting of episode and description
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Lyric
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Form of poem, usually brief and intense, that expresses a poet's subjective response to the world
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Elegy
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Poem commemorating someone's death, usually in a relative mournful tone
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Ode
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Relatively long lyric poem, common in antiquity and adapted by the romantic poets, for whom it was a serious poem of formal diction, often addressed to some significant object that has stimulated the poet's imagination
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Haiku
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17 syllable, three line form of Japanese verse that almost always uses concrete imagery and deals with the natural world
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Sestina
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Poem composed of six six line stnazas and a three line conclusion called an envoi
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Sonnet
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Fourteen line poem
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Epigram
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Short pilthy poem or statement. usually sarcastic
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Rhyme
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Repetition of concluding sounds in different words, often intentionally used at the end of poetic lines
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Rhythm
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Regular recurrence of sounds in poem
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