| A | B |
|---|
| Alliteration | This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. |
| Allusion | This is the reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, or religion with which a reader is likely to be familiar. |
| Blank Verse | This is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| End Rhyme | This is the repetition of similar sounds that comes at the ends of lines of poetry. |
| Fixed Form | This means traditional verse form, or a poem that inherits from other poems certain familiar elements of structure including an unvarying number of lines, rhyme, meter, particular themes, tones, and other elements. |
| Form | This is the structure into which a piece of literature is organized |
| Free Verse | This is poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme, meter, or form. |
| Hyperbole | This is extreme exaggeration used in a literary work. |
| Irony | This is the contrast between appearance and reality or what is expected and what actually happens. |
| Lyric Poem | This is a highly musical verse that expresses the observation and feelings of a single speaker. |
| Metaphor | This is a direct comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as." |
| Meter | This is the rhythm or regular sound pattern in a piece of poetry. |
| Narrative Poem | This tells a story in verse. |
| Onomatopoeia | This is the use of words that sound like the noises they describe. |
| Poem | This is an arrangement of words in verse. It sometimes rhymes, and expresses facts, emotions, or ideas in a style more concentrated, imaginative and powerful than that of ordinary speech. |
| Poetry | This is the third major type of literature in addition to drama and prose. |
| Rhyme Scheme | This is the regular pattern of rhyme found at the ends of lines in poems. |
| Simile | This is a comparison of two unlike things using the terms "like" or "as". |
| Stanza | This is a group of related lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose. |
| Analogy | This is a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar. |
| Connotation | This is the emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Denotation | This is the dictionary definition of a word. |
| Verse | A line ofpoetry |
| Prose | writing in its normal non-rhyming form |
