Elements
The pattern of rhymes falling at the end of a poem's lines.
Rhyme Scheme
The correspondence of sounds in words or lines of verse
Rhyme
A comparison between 2 essentially unlike things using words such as like and as.
Simile
This form is traditionally composed of 3 lines with 17 syllables, written in 5/7/5 syllable count.
Haiku
A fundamental unit in verse, carrying meaning both horizontally across the page, and vertically from one of these to the next.
Line
A figure of speech in which a speaker says 1 thing, but means another.
Verbal irony
The repetition of similar vowel sounds.
Assonance
A comparison between essentially unlike things, or the application of a name or description to something to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
This form does not follow the rules or standards of rhyme, meter, or rhythm. (2 possible answers)
Free verse/Open form
A grouping of lines that forms the main unit in a poem.
Stanza
Exaggeration for emphasis.
Hyperbole
The repetition of similar consonant sounds.
Consonance
Language in a poem representing a sensory experience, including: visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory.
Imagery
An often comical or nonsensical form composed of 5 lines and popular in children's literature.
Limerick
A unit of pronunciation in speech.
Syllable
This term describes situations in which the audience knows more about the situations than the characters in those situations.
Dramatic irony
The repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the beginnings of words.
Alliteration
The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities.
Personification
A plot-driven song with 1 or more characters and often constructed in quatrain stanzas.
Ballad
A 14-line poem traditionally written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization.
This involves a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended.
Situation irony
The use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes. For the points, you must also spell it correctly.
Onomatopoeia
The attribution of human traits, actions, or emotions to an animal, object, or other nonhuman figure.
Anthropomorphism
A long, often book-length narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of people.
Epic
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet
ABABCDCDEFEFGG