Fable
A tale of verse, often using animals or inanimate objects as characters, that illistrates or teaches a moral.
|
Fabliau
A ribald or cynical tale in verse. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales contain some examples.
|
Facetiae
Humorous or witty writings.
|
Feminine Ending
An unstressed syllable at the end of a line. This is sometimes called light ending.
|
Feminine Rhyme
A stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
|
Fescennine Verses
Poetry that is personal in nature, often lacking moral or sexual restraints.
|
Figurative Language
Language in which the literal meaning of words have been ignored in order to imply or show a relationship between diverse things. See trope.
|
Figure Of Speech
A mode or expression of words used out of their original context.
|
Fit or Fytte
An term for the division of a poem. See canto, stanza.
|
Foot
A rhythmic or metrical unit; the division in verse of a group of syllables, one of which is long or accented.
|
Form
The metrical or stanzaic organization of poetry.
|
Found Poem
A poem often created from prose found in non-poetic format.
|
Fourteener
A fourteen syllable iambic line, or seven feet, often found in English poetry.
|
Free Verse
A form that does not obey the metrical rules of versification. The free often refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of meter and rhyme. Often writers will employ poetic devices such as assonance, alliteration, imagery, caesura, etc.
|
