| A | B |
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| Narrative Poem | A verse that tells a story |
| Free Verse | Poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas |
| Lyric Poem | A highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem |
| End Rhyme | Rhyming words at the end of lines |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyming words within lines |
| Slant Rhyme | Half rhyme, near rhyme, or off rhyme is the substitution of assonance or consonance for true rhyme |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer (ex: click, snap, and pow) |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Couplet | A pair of rhyming lines |
| Quatrain | Four line stanza |
| Rhythm | The pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose |
| Prose | Broad term used to describe all writing that is not drama or poetry |
| Ballad | A songlike narrative poem usually featuring rhyme, rhythm, and refrain |
| Denotation | dictionary definition of the word |
| Haiku | a 17 syllable unrhymed Japanese poem, usually about nature |
| Limerick | 5-line, rhymed, rhythmic verse, usually humorous |
| Meter | a fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables |
| Personification | Giving human emotions and characteristics to non-human things |
| Repetition | Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |
