| A | B |
|---|
| narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story |
| metaphor | comparison |
| simile | comparison that uses like or as |
| personification | inanimate objects take on human qualities |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within words |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds within words |
| alliteration | repetition of initial sounds |
| stanza | a stanza is to a poem what a paragraph is to an essay |
| caesura | pause within a line marked by punctuation |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| couplet | two consecutive lines that rhyme |
| diction | word choice |
| imagery | using words to recreate sensory experience |
| theme | idea that is developed throughout a work of literature |
| lyric poem | appeals to emotion and has a musical quality |
| connotation | the associations we make with a word |
| denotation | the dictionary meaning of a word |
| symbol | stands for something (ex. a red rose is a symbol of love) |
| onomatopoeia | the sound of a word is like its meaning |
| free verse | no obvious pattern of rhyme or meter |
| meter | the "beat" or rhythm of a poem |
| refrain | a phrase, line or lines repeated at regular intervals |
| ballad | narrative, historical context, musical |
| end-stopped line | a line that ends with punctuation |
| run-on line | a line that does not end with punctuation |
| perfect rhyme | "cat" and "hat" for example |
| slant rhyme | suggested, but not perfect rhyme ("food" and "good" for example) |
