Definition
A single unit of sound in a word, consisting of a vowel sound with or without surrounding consonants
Syllable
A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or a message
Acrostic
Criminal
Dactyl
Rhymes that occur within a line, not at the end.
Internal rhyme
Life is a rollercoaster
Metaphor
A line with 6 feet
Hexameter
A poem that is often silly or whimsical, written in 5 lines.
Limerick
Accepted
Amphibrach
Free Point
200
The chocolate cake was calling my name
Personification
Haiku
A mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
Elegy
Seventeen
Anapest
Repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within words
Consonance
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Oxymoron
A seemingly contradictory statement, which actually makes sense or contains some truth.
Paradox
A famous poetic form, which follows a rigid structure of 14 lines with a strict rhyming pattern
Sonnet
Half a league
Dactyl
Recurring use of a sound, a word, a phrase or a line
Repetition
A horse is a very stable animal
Pun
A comparison between two things in order to highlight a point of similarity
Analogy
Type of poem first used by the Italian poet Dante, and is characterized by its strict rhyming structure (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc.)
Terza Rima
For the moon...
Anapest
I heard the ripple washing in the reeds
Onomatopoeia
Deep down you are actually quite shallow
Paradox