| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| imagery | words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words which imitate sound |
| repetition | the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas |
| rhyme | the similarity of ending sounds existing between two words |
| stanza | a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme |
| rhyme scheme | the sequence in which the rhyme occurs; the first end sound is a, the second b, etc. |
| metaphor | comparison of two objects to give clearer meaning to one of them |
| simile | comparison of 2 objects using words such as: like, as, or than |
| personification | a figure of speech which gives animals, ideas, or inanimate objects human traits or abilities |
| meter | the appearance of stressed and unstressed syllables |
