| A | B |
|---|
| Alliteration | Repeating of a sound |
| Allusion | Reference to something outside of poetry |
| Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different constanant sounds that are close. |
| Ballad | Song-like poem that tells a story |
| Blank Verse | Poetry in unryhmed iambic pentameter |
| Connotation | Meaning or emotions a word sugests |
| Denotation | Definition of a word |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses |
| Diction | Writer or speaker's choice of words |
| Free Verse | Poetry that has no meter or ryhme scheme |
| Epic | Long narrative poem that is about a hero |
| Meter | Regular patter of stressed and unstressed symbals |
| Theme | central idea |
| Onomatopoeia | A word the sounds like what it descirbes |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing |
| Rhyme | Repition of accented vowel and everything after it in a poem |
| Rhyme Scheme | Pattern of ryhmed lines |
| Internal Ryhme | rhymes within lines |
| Rythym | Alternationof stressed an unstressed sylabals |
| Refrain | A repeated phrase in a poem |
| Simile | A comparison using the word like or as |
| Metaphor | Simile not using like or as |
| Symbol | A noun that stands for something else |
| Stanza | A group of lines that form a single unit |
| Speaker | Voice that is talking in the poem |
| Tone | Attude the writer takes |
| Figurative Language | Type of writing using metaphors and other figures of speech |
| Consonace | Corresponding sounds |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration used for effect |
