| A | B |
|---|
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison not using like or as |
| personification | giving human qualities to inhuman things |
| anthropomorphism | giving human qualities to gods |
| alliteration | a repitition of consonant sounds |
| assonance | a repitition of vowel sounds |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate a sound |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for a rhetorical effect |
| apostrophe | talking to an inanimate object |
| tone | the attitude of the author/speaker |
| allusion | reference to something in previous literature or history |
| dramatic situation | the plot of a poem |
| form | the pattern or shape of a poem |
| stanza | a group of lines arranged together |
| rhyme scheme | putting letters at the ends of lines |
| three feet | trimeter |
| monometer | one foot |
| tetrameter | four feet |
| two feet | dimeter |
| meter | number of feet in a line |
