Alliteration - the repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words.
Analogy - a point-by-point comparison between two things that are alike in some respect.
Assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds with non rhyming words.
Consonance - the recurrence of similar constant sounds in close proximity.
Ballad - a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Blank Verse - a poem/verse without rhyme.
Figurative Language - a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language.
Free Verse - poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Haiku - a poem usually based on nature. Its first line consist of 5 syllables, second 7 and last 5 again.
Imagery - very descriptive language use to activate readers senses.
Lyric Poem - a short poem of song like quality.
Narrative Poem - a poem that conveys a story.
Ode - a lyric poem formed to address a particular structure elevated in style to be sung.
Rhyme - two words which end syllable correspond to another.
Rhythm - music, speech or movement characterized by regularly alternating beats.
Shakespearean Sonnet - a sonnet containing three quadrants and concluding a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg
Petrarchan Sonnet - a sonnet of an octave with a rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a set wit the rhyme pattern: cdecde or cdcdcd.