| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words. |
| Graphics | Pictures or drawings included with a poem; the use of different text sizes or fonts in order to enhance the poem; the omission or inclusion of capitals and/or punctuation. |
| Repetition | The repeating of words, phrases, or lines |
| Sensory images | Words and phrases that create vivid sensory images for the reader that may be visual or appeal to the other four senses of smell, hearing, taste, touch |
| Verse | A unit of poetry such as a stanza or line |
| ABAB Rhyme Scheme | A stanza in which the first and third lines ryhme, and the second and fourth lines rhyme |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically different but have something in common |
| Rhyming couplets | A stanza of two lines, usually with end rhymes |
| Stanza | A recurring grouping of two or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form, and often rhyme scheme |
| Free verse | Rhythmical lines varying in length, usually unrhymed |
| Refrain | One or more words repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which two dissimilar things are compared by the use of like or as |
| Theme | A central idea, concept, or lesson sometimes directly stated or given indirectly |
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