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| The repitition of initial constant sounds, used to imitate sounds or create musical effects. |
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| A reference to a famous person, place or event, or work of literature. |
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| Poetry not written in a regular or rythmical pattern,or meter. the poet is free to write lines of any length or with any number of stresses, or beats. |
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| A three line Japanese poem, usually about nature. The first and third lines have five syllables, the second has seven. |
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| Words and phrases that apeal to the five senses. Poets often paint images, or word images, that appeal to your sense of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. |
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| A figure of speach in which something is discribed as something else, points out a similarity between two unlike things. |
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| Words that imitate sounds repitition- using any element of language (sound, word, phrase, or sentence) more than once. |
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| The repitition of sounds at the ends of words, used to make a poem somglike or to emphasize words and ideas. |
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| The pattern of stressed and unstressed words in spoken or written language. |
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| A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. Everyday speech contains similies such as "pale as a ghost" or " spread like a wildfire." |
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