| A | B |
|---|
| narrative poem | poetry that tells a story; it has characteristics of a story AND a poem* |
| free verse | poetry w/out regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm* |
| humorous poem | a poem that provokes laughter or amusement* |
| rhyme | repetition of sounds at the end of words* |
| end rhyme | rhyme that occurs at the end of a line* |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line* |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhymes in a poem* |
| rhythm | the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry* |
| repetition | using any element of language (sound, word, phrase, line, etc.) more than once* |
| alliteration | repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words* |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning* |
| figurative language | language that is not literally true* |
| metaphor | a comparison of 2 things that have some quality in common; one thing IS another* |
| simile | a comparison of 2 things that have some quality in common; uses "like", "as", "than" or "resembles"* |
| personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object or idea* |
| hyperbole | an author's use of exaggeration/overstatement for emphasis* |
| imagery | words and phrases that create a picture in the mind of the reader and that appeal to the 5 senses* |
| poetry | a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative and musical language* |
| prose | the ordinary form of spoken and written language* |
| stanza | a group of lines within a poem* |
| paragraph | a group of sentences with one main idea* |
