| A | B |
|---|
| alliteration | Peter Piper picked a pair of pickled peppers. |
| allusion | She's as beautiful as Helen of Troy but as stubborn as Mrs. Clinton. |
| Couplet | Wow. To be or not to be, that is the question. I never thought two lines would be so neat. |
| diction | Now, what word would be a better choice than windy for my haiku? |
| free verse | Wow! I get to do ANYTHING - even rhyming or no rhyming in this poem! |
| lyric | I must express myself by writing a poem about how my boyfriend left me! SOB. |
| Metaphor | The moon is a flashlight, heavy and made of metals and chemicals. |
| narrative | Once apon a time, in a land, far - far - awayÉ..The End. |
| Onomatopoeia | Bang! Boom! MOO! Meow! Scratch! |
| paradox | death acknowledges life. |
| Personification | The cat glared at the dog and swore it would get revenge! |
| Quatrain | Ok. Here's a clue - you just wrote four lines of poetry and added a space - what am I? |
| repetition | It's dull, truly dull, and I just can't tell you how dull it is. |
| Rhyme | To rhyme is sublime at all times. |
| Simile | The moon is like a giant flashlight, glowing during the night and helping us find our way. |
| Sonnet | It looks like "abba cddc effe gg" and Shakespeare wrote a lot of them. |
| Stanza | Ok. I'll stop here and think a bit. Hmmm. I think that passage is telling me thatÉ |
| Syllable | Bird - one sound, doctor - two sounds, superman - three sounds |
| tone | Boy, he's got quite the attitude today. I'd swear he hates politics per what I'm reading. |
| Triplet | I just gave birth to three lines of poetry. |
