| A | B |
| assonance | date and fade |
| alliteration | "I bear light shade for the leaves when laid." |
| consonance | "boat and night" |
| line | "A unit in the structue of a poem consisting of one or more metrical feet arranged in rhymn." |
| metaphor | "I fall upon the thorns of life." |
| onomatopoeia | "sizzle" |
| stanza | "A division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space" |
| similie | "O, my luve's like a red, red rose" |
| imagery | " evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense" |
| oxymoron | "deafening silence" |
| verse | "A line of writing arranged in a metrical pattern" |
| accent | "The rhythmically significant stress in the articulation of words" |