| A | B |
| Imagery | words that appeal to the senses (sound |
| Alliteration | a pattern of words starting with the same sound (boy bounced back) |
| Hyperbole | over exaggeration (I'm taller than a pine tree.) |
| Personification | giving human characteristics to non-human objects |
| Simile | comparing two unlike items |
| Metaphor | comparing two unlike items |
| Onomatopoeia | sound words ("chirp") |
| Repetition | in poetry |
| Line | a row of words in poetry |
| Stanza | a group of lines in poetry |
| End Rhyme | when the end of two or more lines rhyme |
| Free Verse | poetry with no set pattern |