| A | B |
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| Allusion | A reference to another work of literature |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration for effect |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to inhuman things |
| Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Symbol | Something that represents something else |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds |
| Internal Rhyme | Words that rhyme within a line of poetry |
| End Rhyme | Rhyme which occurs at the ends of lines |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like the sound they describe |
| Figurative Language | Language used to create a special effect in feeling |
| Literal Language | The exact primary meaning of a word |
| Oxymoron | A paradox where two successive words seemingly contradict each other |
| Metonymy | The substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself |
| Verse | Metric line of poetry names according to the kind and number of feet composing |
| Refrain | Repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals |
| Stanza | A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains |
| Foot | The time period into which the beat of the poetic line is divided |
| Meter | Refers to how the feet are puttogether to form lines of poetry |
| Lyrics | What poets write, the actual words used to form the framework of rhythm and meter |
| "That really burned me up" | Example of figurative language |
| "The wicked witch of the west" | alliteration |
| "The cat purred loudly" | Onomatopoeia |
| "How now brown cow" | Assonance |
| Free verse | Using poetic license, moving outside of traditional poetry rules |
| "The flowers bowed their heads in homage" | Personification |
| Quatrain | Rhyming poems of four lines |
| Narrative | Poetry that tell stories and are usually long |
| Conquain | A poetic form consisting of five lines with a required number of syllables |
| Limerick | Whimsical poems with five lines; lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme |
| Tanka | Japanese form with five lines |
| Proverb | Poetic form that has been called the shortest art form |
| Sonnet | Fourteen-line poem |
| Concrete | Poem that forms a visible picture |
| Rap | Spoken word expression of urban activists |
| Haiku | Japanese form with three lines |
| Acrostic | Poetry in which the first letter of each line spells out a word |
| Couplet | Two-line poem |
| Diamante | Diamond-shaped poems of seven lines |
| Ballad | A story poem meant to be sung |
