| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Rhyme | Words having similarity in sounds |
| Rhythm | The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
| Onomatopoeia | Words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds |
| Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together |
| Quatrain | 4-line stanzas of any kind of poem, rhymed, metered, or otherwise |
| Stanza | A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit |
| Sonnet | A 14-line poem usually in iambic pentameter |
| Haiku | Evokes a picture and it is 3 lines only with 5/7/5 syllables |
| Couplet | When two rhyming lines are consecutive |
| Elegy | A poem for someone who has died |
| Lyric | A poem that expresses feelings or emotions and does not tell stories |
| Refrain | Repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines |
| Ode | A long lyric poem in praise of someone or something |
| Ballad | A song or poem that tells a story about tragedy, love, or alternative |
| Free Verse | Poetry without a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Narrative | A poem that tells a story |
| Epic | A long narrative poem that tells a story about a hero |
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