| A | B |
| assonance | same middle vowel sound |
| denotation | dictionary meaning |
| enjambment | begins on one line and carries over |
| imagery | words that appeal to the senses |
| alliteration | share same beginning sound |
| connotation | word association |
| irony | difference between appearance and reality |
| line | similar to prose sentence |
| mood | reader's feeling |
| meter | rhythm of poem |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate sound |
| simile | comparing like or as |
| symbolism | something represents something else |
| stanza | collection of lines |
| theme | underlying message or idea |
| rhyme | similar ending sound |
| repetition | word or phrase repeated for emphasis |
| tone | author's feeling |
| personification | giving human traits to non-human |
| metaphor | comparing without like or as |