accent                (see stress)

alliteration        the use of the same letter or group of letters, usually at the beginnings of  words, e.g. "broken bones"

anonymous        written by an unknown person

assonance         the use of similar vowel and consonant sounds in words, e.g. "onward, hundred"

coining               inventing new words

double rhyme     (see feminine rhyme)

elegy                  a poem about someone who is dead

feminine rhyme rhyme of two syllables, e.g. "treasure...pleasure"

haiku                short Japanese poem with seventeen syllables

half rhyme        pairing of words with the same letters at the beginning and end, but different internal vowel sound, e.g."lives...loaves"

iambic              a common rhythmical pattern in English poetry of two syllales, the first unstressed, the second stressed,

iambic pentamenter rhythmical pattern found commonly in blank verse consisting of five iambic feet, e.g."Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd"

image              the picture created in your mind by the poet´s words

imagery          the use of images in poems

irregular        a rhythm which does not repeat similar patterns

lyric                a short, rhythmical poem; words to songs

musculine rhyme rhyme in which one syllable only rhymes, e.g. "that man...his van"

metaphor      phrase camparing one thing with another by implying they are the same in a particular way, e.g. "the Moon danced across the sky" (note: metaphor does not use "as" or "like")

meter             the rhythmical pattern of poem

monosyllable words of one syllable

onomatopoeiea the use of words which sound like whatever they describe, e.g. "fizz", "splash"

quatrain          poetry verse with four lines

regular            a rhythm which repeats similar patterns

rhyme scheme the patter made by all the rhymimg words in a poem

simile               phrase comparing one thing with another, e.g. "as white as snow", "like a red ballon"

single rhyme (see musculine rhyme)

stress             the emphasis on that part of word which is spoken loudest, e.g. the syllable "le" in "lemon"

syllable          the unit of rhythm in a word

synonym       a word that means the same or nearly the same as another

thesaurus     a book in which words of similar meaning are found