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| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate sounds. |
| Consonance | The repetition of final consonant sounds in a series of words. |
| Meter | The rhythmical pattern of a poem determined by the number of stresses, or beats, in each line. |
| Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
| Extended metaphor | The use of several comparisons to compare a subject to something else. |
| Rhyme Scheme | A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. |
| Stanza | A formal division of lines in a poem. |
| Refrain | A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or a song. |
| Free verse | Poety not written in regular rhythmical pattern or meter. |
| Ballad | A songlike poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure or romance. |
| Blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. |
| Concrete poem | A poem with a shape that suggests its subject. |
| Haiku | A three-line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables while the second has seven syllables. |
| Lyric poem | A short, highly musical poem that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker. |
| Narrative poem | A story told in verse. These poems ofen have all the elements of a short story. |
| Dramatic Poem | A verse that relies heavily on dramatic elements such as monologue or dialogue |
| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem that follows one of a number of different rhyme themes |
| Ode | A lofty lyric poem on a serious theme |
| End Rhyme | Rhyming words at the end of lines |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyming words within lines |
| Slant Rhyme | Half rhyme, near rhyme, or off rhyme is the substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme |
| Consonance | A kind of slant rhyme in which the ending consonant sounds of two words match, but the preceding vowel sound does not |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds |
| Couplet | Two lines |
| Octave | Eight lines |
| Triplet | Three lines |
| Quatrain | Four lines |
| Quintain | Five lines |
| Sestet | Six lines |
| Heptastich | Seven lines |
| connotation | the implied or suggested meaning of a word or phrase apart from the explicit meaning |
| denotation | the literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which subject exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
| synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, or vice versa; the specific for the general, or vice versa; or the material for the thing made from it |
| connotation | the range of further associations that a word or phrase suggests in addition to its dictionary meaning |
| denotation | the dictionary, or literal, definition of a word |
