Alliteration		The repetition of a vowel sound in the middle of two or more words
Assonance		Type of metaphor where human qualities are given to an animal, object or concept
Consonance		Use of words that sound like what they name/describe
Onomatopoeia		Repetition of a consonant at the beginning of two or more words or stressed syllables
Rhythm		Rhythm structure
Metric Foot		Consistent scheme but no rhyming scheme
Scansion		The repetition of a consonant sound in the middle or at the end of words
Verse		References to things or concepts not by name but something closely associated with them
Enjambement		Referring to an entire thing or concept by referring to one of its parts
Metre		Form of rhyming verse usually following the pattern of ‘abcb’, tells a narrative, and can be set to music
Free verse		Lines of poetry that sound similar but do not rhyme
Blank verse		Descriptive language to evoke sensory experiences
Half rhyme		Finding patterns of metric feet
Ballad		Group of stressed and/or unstressed syllables that form a basic unit of rhythm
Sonnet		Addressing an inanimate object or someone dead or absent
Heroic Couplet		Neither rhyme nor consistent metre
Imagery		Continuation of verses
Figurative Language		Line of poetry
Personification		14 line poem in iambic pentameter, 3 quatrains and a heroic couplet
Apostrophe		2 lines of rhyming verse, usually at the end of a sonnet, which tend to be closed
Metonymy		Language that is not intended to be taken literally
Synecdoche		What is created through patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables