Poetry Terms

is the repetion of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

is the repetition of vowel sounds within words

is the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry

literally means "name-making"; the process of creating or using words that imitate sounds

is the recurrence of words, phrases, or lines

the pattern of end rhyme in a poem and is charted by assigning a letter, beginning with the letter a, to each line

is the similariry of sound between two words

refers to the pattern or flow of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllabes in a line of poetry

is an indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work with which the author believes the readers will be familiar

is a pause or a break in a line of peotry

is a comparison between two essentially unlike things that nevertheless have something in common

the process of determining meter. When you scan a line of peotry, you mark its stressed and unstressed syllables in order to identify the rhythm

run-on sentence; the idea or thought doesn't finish until the next line

is the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the ends of words