Poetic Sound Effects
The name for the pattern of stressed (strong) and unstressed (weak) syllables
Meter
Comparison of two unlike things where one word is used to designate the other (one is the other)
Metaphor
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
Alliteration
How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow,
If they sweet virtue answer not thy show!
Couplet
A poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
Sonnet
The pattern of rhyming words or sounds
Rhyme scheme
Words that imitate the sound they are naming
Onomatopoeia
A reference to someone or something famous
Allusion
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Haiku
No rhyme scheme, no regular meter but still rhythmical
Free verse
Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds
Rhymes
Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
Simile
Language that provides a sensory experience using sight, sound, smell, touch, taste
Imagery
Well, it's one for the money
Two for the show
Three to get ready
Now go, cat, go
Quatrain
Poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five/seven/five, traditionally about nature, does not rhyme
Haiku
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
Rhythm
The literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression
Idiom
A non-living object is given human or life-like qualities
Personification
There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He awoke in a fright
In the middle of the night
And found it was perfectly true.
Limerick
A humorous poem consisting of five lines; first/second/fifth lines must have 7-10 syllables while third/fourth lines must have 5-7 syllables; rhyme schemeis AABBA
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
End rhyme
An intentional exaggeration or overstatement, often used for emphasis
Hyperbole
Comparison of two or more unlike things in order to show a similarity in their characteristics
Analogy
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Free verse
A stanza of four lines, most often with alternating rhyme
Quatrain