ALLITERATION - Repeated sounds as in tongue twisters.
IMAGES - Mental images/figurative language.
POETRY - An imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.
RHYTHM - A movement or flow characterized by a beat or accent.
METAPHORS - A comparison of unlike things WITHOUT like or as.
SIMILES - Comparing unlike things using like, as, and as though.
PATTERNS - A predictable routine.
COUPLET - Pairs of rhyming lines in a verse.
STANZA - A group of lines which form a separate segment.
BALLAD - A story, a narrative poem written in 4 line stanzas.
FREE VERSE - Poem composed of variable, usually un-rhymed lines having no fixed pattern.
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