| A | B |
|---|
| a figure of speech in which someone or something is addressed | apostrophe |
| comparison featuring like or as | simile |
| a figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds | onomatopoeia |
| a pair of rhyming lines | couplet |
| the continuation of a sentence/thought from one line to the next | enjambment |
| an arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time to create rhythm | meter |
| a stanza of four lines | quatrain |
| a type of meter featuring 5 feet | pentameter |
| a type of meter featuring 3 feet | trimeter |
| a type of meter featuring 4 feet | tetrameter |
| the repetition of consonant sounds followed by different vowel sounds | consonance |
| a gross exaggeration | hyperbole |
| giving human traits to nonhuman things | personification |
| a metrical foot featuring an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable | iamb |
| a metrical foot featuring a stressed syllable and an unstressed syllable | trochee |
| a metrical foot featuring two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable | anapest |
| two stressed syllables | spondee |
| the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words | alliteration |
| the author's attitude about a subject | tone |
| the system of rhyme and meter that differientiates it from prose | verse |
| the atmosphere and emotion that the reader gets from the poem | mood |
| a reference to a well-known person, place, event--often from mythology, religion, or history | allusion |
