1. Compares two unlike things without using like or as metaphor

2. A word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning such s “swoosh” went the ball onomatopoeia

3. A group of lines in a poem (paragraph) stanza

4. A type of poem that has no rhythm or rhyme Free verse

5. Japanese poem that has three lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables and is about nature or seasons Haiku

6. Poetic technique used to exaggerate such as “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” Hyperbole

7. Technique that gives human characteristics to non-human things Personification

8. Technique used to compare two unlike things using like or as simile

9. A person, place or thing that has meaning in itself and also stands for something beyond itself symbol

10. Musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables rhythm

11. Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem alliteration

12. a narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung Ballad

13. Contradiction like “honest, thief” is an oxymoron

14. – the words at the end of the lines rhyme or sound alike End rhyme

15. – A type of poem that gets its name from the fact that it is always five lines long Cinquain

16. two lines that rhyme a,a; b,b; c,c Couplet

17. A pattern of end rhyme a, b, a, b, c, a, b, c Rhyme scheme

18. concrete words or details that appeal to the senses Imagery

19. a five line poem; lines 1,2 and 5 rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme Limerick

20. – regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables Meter

21. – repetition of like sounds Rhyme

22. – the feeling within the work (sad, happy, serious) Mood

23. – the author’s attitude toward his work Tone

24. – the main idea Theme