Rhyme in which the same vowel sound…
Purple curtain
Thrilled me, willed me
Alliteration…
Repeating the same sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or
phrase
Grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore…
Item or object that represents something else…
The raven symbolizes evil
A comparison of two things…
Her smile was my sunshine
Comparison using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’…
Her smile was like sunshine
The use of words to paint a mental picture…
The deep, dark valley shivered in the moon light.
Couplet…
Pair of lines that rhyme…usually part of a larger poem
Light Verse…
Nursery rhymes…fun rhymes
Quatrain…4 line rhyme…AABB or
ABAB
Limerick…*
A funny …5 lines…Irish…AABBA
Haiku…*
Short Japanese poem with 17 syllables in 3 lines
Sonnet…*
3 four line stanzas followed by a 2 line stanza
Acrostic…*
First letter of each lines spells a word vertically