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• Alliteration


  When several words in a row or in a stanza begin with the same letter
• Anaphora


  The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several lines of poetry in a row
• Caesura


  A pause or stop in the middle of a line of poetry, marked by any form of punctuation
• Couplet


  A collection of two lines; these often have the same rhyming sound
• Enjambment


  A lack of punctuation at the end of a line of poetry
• Form


  What type of poem the author has written; this could also refer to the way the poem is laid out on the page
• Free verse


  A poem written without a formal form; it may be irregular or lack a regular rhyme scheme
• Internal rhyme


  When two words have the same sound within a line of poetry
• Juxtaposition


  When an author places two opposing ideas, objects, or figures side by side for comparative purposes
• Metaphor


  Saying something is something it literally isn't
• Metre


  The rhythm of a poem (how many different stresses there are in a line and what those stresses are)
• Onomatopoeia


  When a word sounds like its action
• Personification


  Giving an animal or object human characteristics
• Quatrain


  A verse of four lines
• Plosives


  'b', 'p' or 'd' sounds at the beginning or within a word. You can, for instance, have plosive alliteration
• Rhyme


  When words have the same sound at the end of lines of poetry
• Sibilance


  Repeated 's' or soft 'c' sounds
• Stanza


  A collection of lines together in a poem
• Zoomorphism


  Giving an object or human animal characteristics for effect