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| Poetry that tells a story |
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| Poetry that involves the techniques of drama, such as dialogue |
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| A poem, usually short, that expresses some basic emotion or state of mind |
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| A poem with a shape that suggests its subject |
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| A three line Japanese poem that has syllables 5, 7, and 5 for the lines respectively |
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| A 14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter |
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| Poetry written without rhyme or meter |
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| A songlike poem that tells a story often about romance or adventure |
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| A person, place, thing, or idea that has a meaning in itself but also suggests another meaning. |
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| Author's attitude towards his subject |
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| Words that have a sound that imitate another sound |
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| Underlying meaning of a literary work |
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| A repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song |
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| A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
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| A figure of speech that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human characteristics or abilities |
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| Implications that words or phrases carry |
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| The exact definition of a word |
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| A figure of speech which the actual intent is expressed with words that carry the opposite meaning |
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| The rhythmical pattern of a poem |
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| Writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally |
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| A comparison without like or as |
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| A comparison with like or as |
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| A word or phrase that appeals to one of the five senses |
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| Words opposite in meaning |
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| the pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language |
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| The repitition of initial consonant sounds |
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| Repetitive vowel sounds in prose or poetry |
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| Repetitive internal or end consonant sounds |
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| A rhythmic pause in poetry |
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| Specialized metaphor like sky candle for sun |
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| A story with a story inside of it |
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| Two words grouped together |
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| Rhyme within a line of poetry |
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