| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Allusion | An indirect but meaningful referance. |
| Euphemism | subsitiution of an agreeable expression for one whose plainer meaning might ne harsh or unpleasant. |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that creates sound. |
| Personification | an imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction. |
| Simile | phrase using like or as. |
| Symbol | something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. |
| Alliteration | a reppition of constant sounds within a single line. |
| Assonance | a reppition of vowel sounds. |
| Couplet | Two lines that reapeat back to back. |
| Enjambment | a run-on sentance in a poem. |
| Free verse | a poem without a particular rhyme or meter. |
| Pentameter | unrhymed verse of five iambic feet; heroic verse. |
| Pun | A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. |
| Quatrain | stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. |
| Refrain | a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, esp. at the end of each stanza; chorus.. |
| Rhyme | identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse. |
| Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc. |
| Speaker | a person who speaks. |
| Stanza | an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. |
| Lyric poetry | a short poem of songlike quality |
| Narrative poetry | a poem that tells a story and has a plot |
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