Affects Sound
repeated letter or sound at the start of words
Alliteration
sensory descriptors
imagery
perspective from which the poem in told
point of view
tells a story and was traditionally set to music
ballad
beat and pace
rhythm
a striking exaggeration
hyperbole
a unit of lines in poetry
stanza
short, unrhymed poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern
haiku
a sound that corresponds to another in the poem
rhyme
refereneces something outside the poem
allusion
a single, metrical line in poetry
verse
does not rhyme but follows a regular meter, most commonly iambic pentameter
blank verse