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alliteration use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse Simile a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') Metaphor a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity Oxymoron conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') Symbolism the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning hyperbole extravagant exaggeration Personification representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature Onomatopoeia using words that imitate the sound they denote Consonance the property of sounding harmonious Assonance the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words Rhyme the repetition of sounds at the ends of words Couplet a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse Free verse Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme Blank Verse unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) Meter any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity Rhyme Scheme the pattern of rhyme in a poem Rhythm the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry Sonnet a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme 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. Iambic Pentameter a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable