Affects Sound
Affects Meaning
Affects Arrangement
Affects Form
100

repeated letter or sound at the start of words

Alliteration

100

sensory descriptors

imagery

100

perspective from which the poem in told

point of view

100

tells a story and was traditionally set to music

ballad

200

beat and pace

rhythm

200

a striking exaggeration

hyperbole

200

a unit of lines in poetry

stanza

200

short, unrhymed poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern

haiku

300

a sound that corresponds to another in the poem

rhyme

300

refereneces something outside the poem

allusion

300

a single, metrical line in poetry

verse

300

does not rhyme but follows a regular meter, most commonly iambic pentameter

blank verse