Poetry

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Ballad

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art

• Allusion

• Theme

• Meter

• Symbol

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Diction

• Enjambment

A story/narrative in poetic form

• Ballad

• Free Verse

• Verse

• Rhythm

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Rhyme

The author's specific word choice

• Diction

• Stanza

• Verse

• Repetition

This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line

• Enjambment

• Stanza

• Diction

• Allusion

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter

• Free Verse

• Verse

• Rhythm

• Tone

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Comparison

• Couplet

The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line

• Meter

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Symbol