| A | B |
|---|
| ravenous | greedily hungry |
| cavernous | huge and hollow, like a cavern |
| rancor | bitter hate or ill will |
| horrid | shockingly dreadful, extremely unpleasant |
| inedible | not fit to be eaten |
| miniscule | very small, tiny |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the end of words |
| rhythm | the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| repetition | the use of any element of language- a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence- more than once |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words |
| metaphor | describes one thing as if it were something else |
| similies | uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things |
| personification | gives human qualities to something that is non-human |
| narrative poem | poetry that tells a story in a verse |
| lyric poem | poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker in a highly musical verse |
| concrete poem | written poems shaped to look like their subjects |
| haiku | a three-lined Japanese verse form. The first and the third lines each have five syllables, and the second line has seven |
| limerick | a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme |
| sensory language | writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
