| A | B |
| line | a verse of poetry like a sentence |
| stanza | a group of lines like a paragraph |
| personification | something nonhuman acting like a human; (The wind whistled) |
| free verse | a poem without a rhyme or pattern |
| alliteration | using the same sounds; (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers) |
| rhyme | words with the same ending sounds; (cat, bat, rat) |
| repetition | repeating the same word or line; (Rising, rising, rising) |
| haiku | a three lined poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds; (bang, pow, honk) |