Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. Free Verse: Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter. Free verse seeks to capture the rhythms of speech. Figure of speech: an expression that uses words in a non-literal way. Refrain: the repetition of words, phrases, line, or lines according to a pattern. Symbol: anything that stands for or represents something else. Epic: a long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes. Sonnet: a 14-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. Lyric poem: a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker. Homophone: one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or spelling (as the words to, too, and two) Homograph: one of two or more words spelled alike but different in meaning or pronunciation (as the bow of a ship, a bow and arrow) Paradox: a statement that seems contradictory but that actually may be true. Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined. Mood: the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. Tone: the writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject. Cacophony: a harsh or discordant sound; unpleasant Euphony: pleasing, harmonious sounds Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds. Alliteration: repetition of an initial sound in two or more words. Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words. Diction: the choice of words used to give a specific tone. SIMILE: a figure of speech in which LIKE or AS is used to make a comparision between two basically unlike ideas. METAPHOR: a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else; a direct comparison between two things. HYPERBOLE: a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. IAMBIC: unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable (as in "again") TROCHEE: stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed syllable (as in "wonder") RHYTHM: the pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language. RHYME: the repetition of sounds at the end of the words. ONOMATOPOEIA: the use of words that imitate sounds (as in WHIRR, THUD, BOOM, SIZZLE, HISS) ENJAMBMENT: lines that do not end with grammatical breaks. RHYME SCHEME: a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem (i.e., ababcc) .