1	Elements of Poetry
2	Stanza A unit of lines grouped together Similar to a paragraph in prose
3	Couplet A stanza consisting of two lines that rhyme Quatrain A stanza consisting of four lines
4	Mood The feeling a poem creates for the reader Tone The attitude a poet takes toward his/her subject
5	Imagery Representation of the five senses: sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell Creates mental images about a poem’s subject Example: “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way”
6	Metaphor An implied comparison between two objects or ideas Example: “A poet could not but be gay [happy] in such a jocund [cheerful] company. I gazed and gazed but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought.”
7	Personification Giving human traits or characteristics to animals or inanimate objects Example: “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils; beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
8	Simile A direct comparison between two objects or ideas that uses the words “like” or “as” Example: “I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills.”
9	Symbol A word or object that has its own meaning and represents another word, object or idea Example: The daffodils represent happiness and pleasure to the author.
10	Alliteration The repetition of an initial (beginning) sound or consonant in two or more words next to each other in a line of a poem Example: “What wealth …”
11	Assonance The repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words in the line of a poem Example: “Which is the bliss of solitude”
12	Onomatopoeia A word that imitates a noise or action Example: “flutter”
13	Refrain The repetition of one or more phrases or lines at certain intervals, usually at the end of each stanza Similar to the chorus in a song
14	Repetition A word or phrase repeated within a line or stanza Example: “gazed and gazed”
15	Rhyme Scheme The pattern in which end rhyme occurs Example: Continuous as the stars that shine (A) And twinkle on the milky way, (B) They stretched in never-ending line (A) Along the margin of a bay: (B) Ten thousand saw I at a glance, (C) Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. (C)