lyric poem
A short poem of songlike quality, a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
lyrics
The words of a song
ballad
A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
onomatopoeia
A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning.
meter
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
personification
An object or abstract idea given human like qualities (Ex. Flowers danced about the lawns).
metaphor
A figure of speech that compares two things without using a comparing word like or as.
simile
A comparison using like or as.
alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
verse
A single line of poetry.
stanza
A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
rhythm
Definition: A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables (meter) or by the repetition of words and phrases or even whole lines or sentence
