Poetry

the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Ex: On the bald street breaks the blank day.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Consonance

a reference to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature used to suggest an emotion or idea. Ex: an allusion to the Garden of Eden might suggest a notion of paradise or a time of purity and innocence. (Allusion is different from illusion, which is a deception or erroneous perception of reality.)

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Consonance

• Couplet

the repetition, at close intervals, of vowel sounds.

• Couplet

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form

• End Rhyme

• Ballad

the repetition, at close intervals, of consonant sounds found within or at the end of words.

• Figurative Language

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Couplet

2-line stanza, which may or may not rhyme.

• Couplet

• End Rhyme

• Ballad

• Fixed Form

rhyme that comes at the end of lines. Ex. “It runs and it creeps/ For awhile, till it sleeps”

• Lyric

• Free Verse

• Eye Rhyme

• End Rhyme

words that look alike but do not sound alike. Ex: bough, cough; brow, blow.

• Eye Rhyme

• Free Verse

• Lyric

• Internal Rhyme

words that are literally inaccurate but are used to describe or define something. Usually this language makes use of metaphors or similes to compare and equate something to another

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Free Verse

• Imagery

poetry that is categorized by its patterns of lines, meter, rhymes and stanzas. Examples of fixed forms include the sonnet, ballad and villanelle.

• Fixed Form

• Free Verse

• Internal Rhyme

• Lyric