| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| onomatopoeia | words that make sounds |
| metaphor | comparison of two unlike things not using like or as |
| simile | comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| personification | human characteristics given to non humans things |
| stanza | paragraph of poetry |
| line | one line of a stanza that has a number naming the line |
| rhyme | two or more words have the same ending sounds |
| rhythm | the beat of poetry |
| internal rhyme | rhyme within the line |
| end rhyme | rhyme at the end of the line |
| assonance | repetition of vowels sounds within the words of a line |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds on the downbeat of line |
| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story |
| lyric poetry | highly musical poetry |
| narrator | person who tell the story |
| imagery | creating a picture from the words and their use of senses |
| sensory language | using the senses |
| meter | yardstick of poetry |
| rhyme scheme | patterns of end rhyme |
