The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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Annotation
A note that is made when reading any text. In our case we will annotate or make lots of notes when we read poems.
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Ballad
A lively, often funny poem that tells a story and is written in ballad stanzas. A ballad stanza is often (but not always) in the following form: alternating three and four beat lines, with the second rhyming with the fourth (ABCB)
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Connotation
The implied or suggested meaning connected with a word.
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Denotation
The dictionary meaning of a word.
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Imagery
Words or a series of words representing a sensory experience: see/hear, smell, touch/taste.
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Metaphor
Comparison between essentially unlike things without using like or as.
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Meter
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents/stresses in a line of verse.
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Onomatopoeia
The use of words to imitate the sounds of words they describe.
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Personification
The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities
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Prose
The ordinary form of spoken or written __language__, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
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Quatrain
Four line stanza or grouping of four lines of verse
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Refrain
A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or poem, especially at the end of each stanza; chorus.
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Rhyme Scheme
The pattern that end sounds make in a poem.
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Rhythm
The arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables
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Scanning
Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables.
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Simile
A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”
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Stanza
A unit of poetic lines or a “paragraph” in poetry
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Symbol/Symbolism
An object or action that stands for something beyond itself.
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Verse
Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
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