| A | B |
| Line | the basic unit of poetry. |
| Stanza- | A group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song. |
| Tone | An authors attitude toward his or her subject matter. |
| Enjambment | The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next. |
| Meter | A regular pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables. |
| Rythm | the pattern of beats created by the syllables. |
| Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry + rythmn. |
| Rythm | The pattern of beats. |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern that ends rhymes in a stanze or a poem. |
| Free verse | poetry that has no fixed patter of meter, rhyme, line lenght, or stanza arragment. |
| Prose poetry | short composition using mythmn, imagery. |
| Speak | the voice that communicates with the reader. |
| Haiku | traditional form of poetry- japanese. |
| Imagery | language that appeals to 5 senses. |
| Tanka | Unrhymed japanese verse from 5 lines. |
| Similie | comparision between 2 different things using like or as. |
| Metaphor | Comparision btw 2 different things. |
| Personafication | animal, object is given human characteristics. |
| Alliteration | repetition of sounds |
| Consonance | repetition of sounds at the end of lines. |
| Assonance | repetiotion of same vowels in words. |
| Onomatopeia | words that sound like its spelled. |
| Figurative language | expressions arent true. |
| scansion | analysis of meter of a line in a verse. |
| Lyric poem | expresses speaker's thought + feelings. |
| Foot | basic unit in the measurement of rhythm. |
| Sonnet | lyric poem of 14 lines. |