1. The repetition of the beginning sounds of words, as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” “long-lived,” “short shrift,” and “the fickle finger of fate.”

2.  the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery

3.  the use of unharmonious or dissonant speech sounds in language

4.  a pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.

5.  The meaning of the poem that is deeper than just the words on the page.

6.  figurative or descriptive language in a literary work

7.  a rhyme created by words within two or more lines of a verse.

8.  word for word

9.  A comparison of two things not using the words “like” or “as.”

10.  poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses

11.  the formation of words whose sound is imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated, such as hiss, buzz, and bang

12.  A rhetorical device in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for effect: “She is just a poor little rich girl.”

13.  the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc, as for literary or artistic effect

14.  the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.poetry

15.  A word agreeing with another in end sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind

16.  a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using “like” or “as”, for example “she is like a rose.”

17.  an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem

18.  something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.

19.  a unifying or dominant idea

20.  The overall mood or feeling in a poem.