| A | B |
|---|
| Narrative Poem | A verse that tells a story |
| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem that follows one of a number of different rhyme themes |
| Free Verse | Poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem |
| end stop lines | Rhyming words at the end of lines |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyming words within lines |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words in a line of poetry |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | When a word's pronunciation makes that sound. (ex: click, snap, and pow) |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Couplet | Two lines |
| Quatrain | Four lines |
| meter | The pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
| ballad | a poem told in verse usually meant to be sung |
| diction | word choice |
| denotation | a word's dictionary definition |
| connotation | what a word makes us think of |
| allusion | reference to another work, art, poem, story, etc. |
