| A | B |
| internal rhyme | When the rhyme occurs within a line. |
| couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. |
| pastoral | A type of poem that deals in an idealized way with shepherds and rustic life. |
| lyric | A poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings. |
| rhythm | The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern. |
| inference | The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence. |
| theme | The general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express in a literary work. |
| stanza | An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. |