POETRY NOTES PROSE – ORDINARY SPEECH OR WRITING VERSE – WRITING THAT HAS RHYTHM & METER RHYTHM – PATTERN OF STRESSED AND UNSTRESSED SYLLABLES METER – REPETITION OF THE RHYTHM

POETRY NOTES RHYME – REPETITION OF SOUNDS END RHYME – WORDS AT THE ENDS OF SUCCESSIVE LINES RHYME INTERNAL RHYME – WORDS WITHIN A LINE OF POETRY RHYME WITH WORDS AT THE ENDS OF LINES PERFECT RHYME – DIFFERENT CONSONANTS ARE FOLLOWED BY IDENTICAL VOWEL AND CONSONANT SOUNDS (E.G. MOON & JUNE) IMPERFECT OR SLANT RHYME – WORDS WITH SIMILAR BUT NOT IDENTICAL SOUNDS; EITHER THE VOWEL SOUNDS DIFFER WHILE THE CONSONANTS ARE THE SAME OR VICE VERSA (E.G. HOLD/BALD) RHYME SCHEME – THE PATTERN OF RHYMES AT THE END OF LINES; INDICATED BY SUCCESSIVE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET

POETRY NOTES STANZA – SIMILAR TO PARAGRAPHS IN PROSE; DIVISION OF LINES THAT FORM THE RECURRENT METER OF A POEM; A VERSE COUPLET – 2 LINE STANZA TERCET – 3 LINE STANZA QUATRAIN – 4 LINE STANZA CINQUAIN – 5 LINE STANZA SESTET – 6 LINE STANZA HEPTASTICH – 7 LINE STANZA OCTAVE – 8 LINE STANZA

POETRY NOTES HYPERBOLE – FIGURE OF SPEECH THAT USES EXAGGERATION FOR EMPHASIS ONOMATOPOEIA – WORDS WHICH RESEMBLE THEIR SOUNDS POETIC LICENSE – FREEDOM TO DEPART FROM CONVENTIONAL OR ESTABLISHED RULES OF LANGUAGE

POETRY NOTES ALLTERATION – repetition of initial consonant sounds ASSONANCE – repetition of vowels anywhere in the word CONSONANCE – repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the word SCANSION -the dividing of verse (lines of poetry) into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables to determine the meter of a poem. METRICAL FOOT – a group of two or three syllables forming the basic rhythm