| A | B |
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| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within words |
| quatrain | four line stanza |
| blank verse | unrhymed poetry with meter |
| ballad | poem that tells a story |
| elegy | poem that states sadness about death of an important person |
| epic | long story poem describing adventures of a hero |
| ode | long lyric that is deep in feeling, rich in imagery etc. |
| sonnet | 14 line poem stating a poet's personal beliefs (Shakespeare wrote many). |
| limerick | humorous verse of five lines |
| cinquain | five line poems that follow a syllable or word pattern. |
| terse verse | a humorous poem made up of two words that rhyme and have the same number of syllables |
