| Term | Definition |
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| Meter | a recognizable pattern in a verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. |
| Rhymed verse | Poetry with both meter and rhyme. |
| Blank verse | Poetry with no rhyme but it has meter. |
| Free verse | The poem does not rhyme and it does not have meter |
| End Rhyme | A poem that rhymes with the last word of each line |
| Internal Rhyme | Two or more words in the same line that rhyme |
| Rhyme scheme | The pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
| Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound at the beginning |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in the phrase |
| Consonance | A special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants anywhere in the phrase. |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates sound |
| Refrain | A repeating of two or more lines at the end of a stanza |
| Repetition | The restating of a word or line. |
| Oxymoron | Word or phrase made up of opposite words or phrasing. |
| Apostrophe | The act of addressing something not there |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
| Litotes | An understatement |
| Metaphor | A comparison between two totally different things. |
| Simile | A comparison using the adverbs like or as |
| Personification | Giving traits to an inactive object |
| Symbol | Something concrete that represents something else |
| Metonymy | Substitution of one thing for something closely associated with it |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech representing the whole |
| Stanza | Division of lines in a poem |
| Quatrain | A stanza consisting of four lines |
| Couplet | Two lines that rhyme with the second line immediately following the first |
| Heroic couplet | Two consecutive lines in poetry that express a complete thought in meter and that rhyme |
| Sonnet | A poem with fourteen lines |
| Italian sonnet | eight line stanza followed by a six line stanza |
| English sonnet | uses three quatrains each with a different rhyme |
| Haiku | Three line Japanese poem, 5-7-5 |
| Poetic license | Freedom given to a poet, for rhyme or meter |
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