| A | B |
| Rhythm | The recurrence of stress within a poem |
| Ballad | A narrative poem that comes from traditional or folk literature |
| Synesthesia | A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color |
| Rhymes | A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds |
| Internal rhymes | Words that rhymes within a line of poetry |
| End rhyme | A poem whose ending words in a line rhyme |
| Nonsense | Delight in the illogical and the incongruous |
| Verse | A stanza or part of a poem |
| Narrative poetry | Situational or story poems |
| Lyric poetry | Song-like poems that use sounds, rhythms, and figurative devices to express an emotional response |
| Meter | Rhythm set in a regular pattern |
| Onomatopoeia | A word for a sound like bark or squeak |
| Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds |
| Alliteration | Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds |