Allegory

Allegory（头韵法）：a technique in English inherited from Anglo-Saxon systems of versification to make the sound echo。It is the repetition of the same consonant sound in two or more words or syllables in close succession，especially in the same line。Strictly speaking，alliteration refers to the repetition of the consonant sound，not the letter

Antithesis（对仗法）：words，phases，clauses，or sentences set in deliberate contrast to one another Assonance（半谐音，准押韵）：the echoing of similar vowel sounds in the same line or consecutive lines

Blank verse（无韵诗，素体诗）：verse composed of an indefinite number of unrhymed iambic pentameters。

Cacophony（不愉快的音调，涩音法）：the resulting effect where the poet tries to create rough and aesthetically unpleasing sound

Connotation（内涵意义，隐含意义）：what a word suggests beyond its basic definition；the overtones of a word

Consonance（辅音韵）the repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words

Couplet（对句）：a pair of lines usually of the same metre and of equal length，which have a common rhyme

Denotation（本义，指示意义）：the basic definition，the literal meaning，or dictionary meaning of a word

End rhyme（尾韵，行尾押韵）：rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

Enjambment（连续式，跨行式）：that form of a poem in which sound or meaning from one poetic line runs over to the next line or lines

Euphony（和谐的声音，谐音法）:the resulting effect where the poet tries to create following，smooth and aesthetically pleasing sound

Eye rhyme（视觉押韵）：the kind of rhyme which looks riming，as the spelling of the words appears the same or alike，but the pronunciation are different，as in laughter\daughter

Exact rhyme（工整押韵，全押韵）：also known as“perfect rhyme”or “full rhyme”。A rhyme in which the sounds following the accented syllable are identical，as in go\ flow

Feminine rhyme（末尾轻音节押韵，弱韵）：a rhyme scheme in which the lines containing rhyming words end in unstressed syllables with the repeated accented vowel in either the second or third last syllable of the word involved

Foot（音步）：foot is the constituent metrical unit。It is the basic unit in the scansion or measurement of version。A foot usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables；thus，one iamb equals one foot，and so forth

Free verse（自由诗）：poetry which has no regular metre or rhyme pattern and usually is irregular in line length。Poetry written in free verse is arranged in lines，may be more or less rhythmical，but has no fixed metrical pattern or expectation

Iamb（抑扬格）：a metrical foot in which one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable

Iambic metre（抑扬格律）：a verse metre in which the majority of feet are iambs。This is the most common in English

Image（意象）;an image in poetry is a word or series of words which has a direct appeal to our sensory experience and to invoke sense perception such as sight，sound，smell。It is a sense impression conveyed in words by the writer。An image will often involve a comparison between

two or more usually unrelated objects

Internal rhyme（中间韵）：a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occur within the line Masculine rhyme（or single rhyme）（末尾重音节押韵，强韵）：a rhyme in which the stressed or accented vowel sound is in the final syllable of the words involved

Metre（格律，韵律）；the recognizable and regularized pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse。It is the recurrent and regularized rhythm in a verse

Parallelism（排比法）：the arrangement of words，phrases，clauses，or sentences in parallel structure to prompt readers to infer meaning between those structures

Pentameter（五音步诗行）：a metrical line containing five feet

Refrain（叠句）：a repeated word，phrase，line，or group of line，normally at some fixed position in a poem written in stanzaic form

Rhyme（or rime）（押韵格式）：the conventional way of noting the pattern of rhymed line endings in a stanza or a group of lines。Conventionally，the small letter a is used for the first rhymed sounds，b for the second and so on

Scansion（格律分析，韵律分析）;the process of measuring verse，that is，of making accented and unaccented syllables，diving the lines into feet，identifying the metrical pattern，and noting significant variations from that pattern

Tetrameter（四音步诗行）;a metrical line containing four feet or four primary stresses

Theme（主题，主题思想）：the central idea or thought of a literary work。In a long literary work，it may have multipie themes

Trimetre（三音步诗行）：a metrical line containing three feet