• alliteration: Repetition of the same sound of words at the beginning of the word
• allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
• assonance: repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
• blank verse: poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines
• couplet: two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.
• diction: the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing
• end rhyme: a rhyme that occurs in the end syllable of a verse
• enjambment: is incomplete syntax at the end of a line
• epic: is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
• foot: a unit of metre, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
• meter: a unit of rhythm in poetry and is also called a foot
• ode: a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
• onomatopoeia: Words that similar to the sound they describe
• simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
• stanza: any division or grouping of words in a poetic composition, with groupings traditionally having been referred to as stanzas.
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