WHAT IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER?

If you’ve studied any of Shakespeare’s sonnets, you may have heard of "iambic pentameter" … but what exactly is iambic pentameter?

In a line of poetry, an "iamb" is a foot or beat consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.  Read here.

FIGURES OF SPEECH - 3^C LINGUISTICO

A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in a distinctive way. Though there are hundreds of figures of speech, here we'll focus on 20 top examples.  Read here.

https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=figures-speech-quiz

https://literaryterms.net/figures-of-speech-quiz/

https://quora2017.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/figures-of-speech/

GLOSSARY OF POETRY TERMS

Glossary of Poetry Terms

Poetic Devices 

Literary Terms 

Figures of speech

THE ART OF POETRY - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Here you can find a PDF presentation of the elements of poetry.

THE ART OF POETRY

Click here to download a PDF presentation of the elements of poetry.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.  W. H. Auden 

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.  Robert Frost

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.  Salvatore Quasimodo