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| poetry | a patterned form of verbal or written expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical terms |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables estabished in a line of poetry |
| foot | a unit of meter; can have two or three syllables |
| iamb | a two syllable foot with the stress on the second syllable; the most common foot in English |
| rhymed verse | consists of verse with end rhyme and usually a regular meter |
| blank verse | consists of lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme |
| free verse | consists of lines that do not have a regular meter and do not contain rhyme |
| rhyme | the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words |
| end rhyme | consists of the similarity occurring at the end of two or more lines of verse |
| internal rhyme | consists of the similarity occurring between two or more words in the same line of verse |
| masculine rhyme | occurs when one syllable of a word rhymes with another word; for example, blend and send, bright and light |
| feminine or double rhyme | occurs when the last two syllables of a word rhyme with another word; for example, lawful and awful, lighting and fighting |
| triple rhyme | occurs when the last three syllables of a word or line rhyme; for example, quivering and shivering, battering and shattering |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern or sequence in which the rhyme occurs |
| alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonant sound in two or more words in a line of verse |
| onomatopoeia | the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds; for example, buzz, crunch, gurgle, sizzle |
| assonance | the similarity or repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse |
| refrain | the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
| repetition | the reiterating of a word or phrase within a poem |
| figure of speech | an expression in which the words are used in a nonliteral sense to present a figure, picture, or image |
| simile | a direct or explicit comaprison between two usually unrelated things using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | an impled comparison between two usually unrelated things without using "like" or "as" |
| personification | the giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals |
| symbol | a word or image the signifies something other than what is literally represented |
| stanza | a division of a poem based on thought or form |
| couplet | two lines of verse that rhyme a-a |
| triplet or tercet | a three line stanza usually rhyming a-a-a |
| quatrain | a stanza of four rhymed lines |
| quintet | a five line stanza |
