| A | B |
| sensory image | image that appeals the 5 senses |
| simile | a comparison between 2 things using 'like or as' |
| metaphor | a comparison of 2 unlike things in which one is referred to as though it were the other |
| personification | figurative language in which non-human things are given human characteristics |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| onomatopoeia | use of words that imitate sounds |
| stanza | a poetic paragraph containing one main idea |
| free verse | poetry without a regular rhythm, meter, or rhyme |
| rhythm | the pattern of stresses or beats in written language |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhymed words at the end of a line of poetry |
| sonnet | a lyric poem containing 14 lines with a particular stanza and rhyme pattern |
| meter | a rhythmical pattern determined by the number and types of stresses in a line of poetry |
| narrative poem | tells a story and has all the elements of fiction |
| speaker | the narrator of a poem who may or may not be the poet |