| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Haiku | a Japanese verse form |
| Lyric | a poem mainly expressing the poet's emotions and feelings |
| couplet | two successive lines of poetry of the same length that rhyme |
| alliteration | repetition of the initial consonant sound |
| Limerick | a nonsense poem of five lines |
| metaphor | comparison between two objects without using the words like or as |
| meter | a rhythm in verse |
| iamb | a metrical foot of one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable |
| personification | a figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is represented as a person |
| free verse | poetry without regular meter, rhyme, or form |
| ballad | a poem that rhymes, is usually about a person, and is romantic or sentimental |
| narrative | a poem that tells a story |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhymes used in a piece of verse |
| onomatopoeia | formation of a word by imitating the natural sound of the object |
| simile | comparison of two objects using like or as |
| symbol | an object that represents an intangible concept |
| hyperbole | an extravagant exaggeration |
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