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| Adjective | A word that qualifies, defines, or limits a noun or a pronoun |
| Alliteration | The same, beginning consonat sound in two or more words close together |
| Assonance | The same vowel sound in two of more words close together |
| Consonance | The same consonat sound in words close together. The repeating consonant sounds may occure anywhere within the words |
| Foot | Basic metrical units; the most common feet are the iamic, trochia, anapestic, dactylic, and spondaic |
| Free Verse | Poetry without any end rhyme, set structures, or meter |
| Imagery | A mental Picture |
| Limerick | A traditional humorous form consisting of five lines. |
| Metaphor | The comparison between two unrelated nouns |
| Meter | Regular patterns of heacily and lightly stressed syllables |
| Mood | The tone of a poem reflecting the author's attitudes, feelings, and perspective |
| Noun | A word that names a person, place, thing, quality, or state |
| Onomatopoeia | The formation of words that sound like or suggerst the objectics or actions being named |
| Personification | The assigment of human traits to things, colors, qualities, and Ideas |
| Peom | A compact peice of writing containing one or more poetic elements |
| Poetic Elements | The fundamentals and foundation of poetr, e.g., metaphor, simile, personification, imagery, alliteration. |
| Preposition | A word that expresses a relationship between a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase and another element of the sentence |
| Repetition | Repeating the same sords or phrases through a peom |
| Anaphora | Nother name for Repetition |
| Rhyme | Repetition of similar or identical sounds |
| End Rhyme | Rhyme at the ends or lines of a poem |
| Exact rhyme | Uses words with identical final sounds |
| Internal rhyme | Rhyme of words within lines of a poem |
| Near rhyme | Uses words with similar, nut not identical, sounds at the ends of words |
| Off rhyme | Another word for Near rhyme |
| Rhyme Pattern | Scheme of rhymr in a poem: may occure regularly or in unique patterns |
| Traditional Forms of Rhyme | Couplet, Triplet, quatrain, Visual rhyme |
| Couplet | Two lines of poetry that usually rhymes |
| Triplet | A three line stanza that usually rhymes |
| Quatrian | A four line stanza usually with a set rhyme pattern |
| Visual Rhyme | Uses words that look like, rather than sound like, they rhyme |
| Scansion | The process of marking the metrical pattern of a poem |
| Simile | A comparison between two unrelated nouns using "like" or "as" to bridge the connection |
| Sonnet | A traditional structure written in a meter consisting of fourteen lines of three quartains and a couplet |
| Stanza | A group of lines forming a strucutural division of poem |
| Symbol | A sign of object representing a thing, a quality, or an idea |
| Verb | Any class of words expressing an action performed |
| Action Verb | Verb that shows action or motion |
| Linking verb | Verb that connects the subject of the sentece to the modifier |
| Auxiliary Verb | Verb used in conjunction with another verb |
