Poetry Terms

Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning
Analogy: Point-by-point comparison between two like things
Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds with non-rhyming words
Consonance: Repetition, at close intervals, of the final consonants of accented syllables or important words Ballad:Tells a story meant to be recited
Ballad:  A poem or song narrating a story in a short stanza 
Blank Verse: Un-rhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
Figurative Language: A system used to analyze language
Free Verse: Poems that do not rhyme  or have a regular meter
Haiku: A Japanese poem using seventeen syllables  
Imagery: Visual  Description   
Lyric Poem: A short poem that like a song
Narrative Poem: Poetry that has a plot
Ode: A lyric poem in a form of an address
Rhyme: Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words 
Rhythm: A pattern of movement of sound 
Shakespearean Sonnet: A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg
petrarchan Sonnet: a sonnet consisting of an octave with a rhyme pattern of abbaabba