| A | B |
| pure rhyme | occurs when the final sounds of two words are exactly alike |
| slant rhyme | occurs when the final sounds of two words are very similar but not exactly alike |
| end rhyme | occurs when the two rhyming words both are located at the ends of their lines |
| internal rhyme | occurs when one or both of the rhyming words is located at the beginning or middle of the line instead of at the end |
| alliteration | the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| consonance | the repetition of middle or final consonant sounds in neighboring words |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words |
| prose | writing in sentence/paragraph form |
| poetry | writing in verse with lines and stanzas |