| A | B |
| lyric | poem to be sung |
| onomatopeia | using words that imitate the sound they represent |
| rhythm | pattern or beats in the lines of a poem |
| repetition | recurring use a sound, word, a phrase, or a line |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| rhyme | words that have the same ending sound |
| meter | number of beats in a line of poetry |
| haiku | 3 line poem, 5,7,5; usually about nature |
| sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| stanza | grouping of lines in a poem |
| limerick | humorous, nonsense 5 line verse with a rhyme scheme of aabba |
| metaphor | compares two things without like or as |