| A | B |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| imegry | words that evoke the senses |
| inversion | words out of order |
| metphor | comparing two things without using like or as |
| narrative poetry | poems that tell a story |
| rhyme | repetition of ending sounds of words |
| rhythm | sounds of words that create a beat |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern to the repetition of ending sounds in lines |
| simile | comparing two things using like or as |
| stanza | a unified group of lines in a poem |
| symbol | a word or object that represents something else |
| couplet | a stanza with two lines in it |
| personification | giving human-like qualities to objects or animals |
| portmanteau | using two words to create a new word |
| quatrain | a stanza with four lines in it |
| onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like what it represents |