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 blank verse | iambic pentameter without rhyme |
| free verse | poetry without a set rhyme or meter |
| rhyme | similarity of words |
| slant rhyme | imperfect rhyme |
| allitertation | repetition of inital sounds in two or more words |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate their corresponding sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repition of consonant sounds |
| synecdoche | mentioning a part of something to represent the whole |
| metonymy | subsitution of a word naming an object for another word closely related to it |
| allegory | narrative or description having a second meaning |
| hyperbole | and exageration for the purpose of emphasis |
| apostrophe | addressing someone of something no present |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows more than the characters |
| paradox | a statement containing seemily contradictory or incompatible elements |
| oxymoron | a compact paradox |
| allusion | a reference to another piece of literature or art, or to history or current events, or the Bible |
| anachronism | element of a story that is out of its time frame |
| aphorism | a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle |
| conceit | a far-fetched comparison between two seemingly unlike things; extended metaphor |
| enjambment | the running of a sentence over lines and stanzas |