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| Form | The style of poem, including free verse, narrative, lyrical, and humorous. |
| Stanza(s) | the sections of a poem; one may focus on one central idea or thought; lines are arranged in a way that looks and sounds pleasing. |
| Rhyme | words that have the same end sound may be used at the ends of lines to make it fun to read and easy to remember |
| Rhythm | the beat of how the words are read; may be fast or slow |
| Sensory Words | words that describe how things look, feel, taste, smell, and sound |
| Figurative Language | Similes, metaphors, and personification may describe or compare |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the sound they describe |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same beginning sounds in several nearby words. |
| Author's Purpose | to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to |
| Free Verse | verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern and does not rhyme. The poet creates the rules, drawing on his intuitive sense of how the poem should look, sound, and express meaning. |
| Verse | a stanza; |
| Internal Rhyme | A rhyme within the same line of verse (e.g., dreary and weary in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary). |
| Lyric Poetry | A short poem expressing personal feelings and emotions that may be set to music and often involves the use of regular meter. |
| Narrative Plot | is poetry that has a plot. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be simple or complex. It is usually nondramatic, with objective regular scheme and meter.[1] Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls and lays. |
| Epic Poetry | A long narrative poem, usually chronicling the deeds of a folk hero and written using both dramatic and narrative literary techniques (e.g., Homer’s Iliad or John Milton’s Paradise Lost). |
| Limericks | humorous poems that are structured in 5 lines. The first and second lines rhyme, the third and fourth. The fith line yields a surprise ending or humorous statement and rhymes with the first two lines. |
| Cinquain | a 5 line stanza, is a form of syllabic verse. The 5 lines have, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. |
| Concrete Poems | dramatically represent meaning by the way words sound and look. The print of the poem itself takes shape as a collage or picture that conveys meaning. With different fonts, typefaces, and other technologies available, the possibilities are endless. |
| Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds within words. |
| Consonance | The Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the ends of words. |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of end rhymes in a poem which are found by marking lines that end in the same sound with a letter. |
