Sonnet		Poetry that does not have a set rhyme scheme.
Antonym		Giving human qualities to non-humans (animals, objects, ideas).
Theme		The distincitve way that a writer uses language.
Irony		The message or point of a work.
Rhymescheme		A poem that tells a story.
Refrain		Poetry in play form, like Shakespeare.
Homer		A writer's choice of words.
Mood		Two words with opposite, or nearly opposite, meanings.
Rhythm		The voice talking to us in a poem or story.
Setting		A technique that involves contradictions or contrasts. It can be verbal or dramatic.
Dialogue		A speech by one character, usually in a play.
Extendedmetaphor		The conversations that characters have with one another.
Alliteration		A poem that expresses a speaker's thoughts or feelings.
Poetlaurete		A comparison that does not use like or as.
Symbol		The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words.
Metaphor		The use of sound words such as bang, buzz, pow.
Monologue		The repetition of the sounds to link words, such as bat
Dramatic		The rhyme pattern that a poem follows.
Style		A comparion using like, as or than.
Haiku		A musical quality based on repetition.
Stanza		A Japanese 3 line, 17 syllable poem.
Synonym		A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or artwork.
Freeverse		THe place and time in which a story or poem takes place.
Couplet		A metaphor that continues throughout a poem or song, such as "Strange Fruit."
Onomatopoeia		Two words with the same or similar meaning.
Ballad		The offical poet of the United States
Poe		Person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, like a flag.
Tone		The author's attitude towards the subject or audience.
Diction		A phrase or a stanza that is repeated throughout a work.
Lyric		Two rhyming lines of poetry.
Figurativelanguage		Language used in poetry based on imaginative comparisons that is not literally true.
Imagery		Language that appeals to the senses.
Narrative		A paragraph of poetry.
Rhyme		The author of "The Raven."
Speaker		The feeling a piece of literature is intended to create.
Simile		A song that tells a story.
Allusion		A 14 line poetic form often used by Shakespeare.
Personification		The Ancient Greek poet who wrote "The Odyssey."