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| Alliteration | Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. |
| Assonance | The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds. |
| Ballad | Songlike narrative poems. They have four lines, and lines 2 and 4 rhyme. |
| Consonance | The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of words. |
| Couplet | A two-lined poem that rhymes and expresses a complete thought. |
| Free Verse | Poetry without regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
| Haiku | Began in Japan. Written with 17 syllables and does not rhyme. Usually about nature. |
| Hyperbole | I bet he studies 24 hours a day! |
| Imagery | The picture or image words create in a readers mind. |
| Limerick | A humorous, five-lined poem. Lines 1,2, and 5 rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 rhyme. |
| Meter | Specific regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Onomatopoeia | Crackle and Pop are examples. |
| Oxymoron | "Wise Fool" and "Cruel Kindness" are examples. |
| Personification | The old tree poked me with its pointy finger. |
| Pun | A play on the multiple meanings of words. |
| Repetition | The quarter fell down, down, down into the dark gutter. |
| Rhyme | Run-Sun, Plate-Skate, Smile-Mile |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of rhyming words. |
| Rhythm | Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within a poem. |
| Quatrain | Four-lined poem with the rhyme scheme of AABB or ABCB. |
