| A | B |
|---|
| literal language | language that means exactly what it says |
| metaphor | comparison that does not use like or as |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in lines of a poem |
| onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean |
| paradox | statement that seems to contradict itself but is true |
| quatrain | four line stanza |
| simile | comparison that does use like or as |
| sonnet | 14 line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter |
| stanza | section of poetry seperated from the other sections |
| symbolism | use of one thing to represent another |
