| Term | Definition |
|---|
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| personification | a figure of speech with endows non-human things/objects with human traits or abilities |
| couplet | a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme |
| rhyme | the similarity fo ending sounds existing between two words |
| imagery | words or phrases to appeal to any combination of the senses |
| repetition | the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas |
| point of view | the point of teh speaker of a story or poem |
| verse | any line of poetry |
| simile | a comparison between two objects using like or as |
| epic | a long serious poem taht tells the travels, adventures, or heroic episodes of a heroic figure |
| lyric | a type of poetry that expresses a poet's thoughts and feelings about something |
| quatrain | a stanza or poem of four lines |
| rhyme scheme | a sequence in which the rhyme occurs |
| metaphor | comparison between two objects without using like or as |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| omomatopoeia | a figure of speech in words are used to imiate sounds |
| ode | a lyric peom that is written to praise a person or object |
| sonnet | a 14-stanza peom that has three four-line stanzas, a two-line couplet, and each line has 10 syllables |
| stanza | a unified group of lines in poetry in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme |
| ballad | a type of narritave poem that tells a story using simple language and repetition |
| narritive | type of poetry that tells a story |
| elegy | a type of lyric poem that mourns the loss of someone or something |
| free verse | a poem written without regular rhyme scheme, meter or form |
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