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Denotes a single line of poetry. The term can also be used to refer to a stanza or other parts of poetry.
Origin: Latin, vertere

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in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
Origin: Greek, tonos

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in a story is its underlying message, or lesson learned
Origin: Greek, theme

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is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
origin: Latin, symbolum

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is a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyming scheme.
Origin: Greek

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is a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two different things; using like or as.
Origin: Latin, similis

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is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.
Origin: Greek, rhuthmos

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a poetic structure of words to convey how something sounds.
Origin: Greek, onomatopoiia

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is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound.
Origin:  Greek, metron

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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
origin: Greek, metaphora

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Origin: French, vers libre

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the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
Origin: French, enjambement

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the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Origin: Latin dictio(n-), dicere

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the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity
Origin: Latin consonantia

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a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Origin: Old French, balade

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in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.
Origin: Latin, sonus

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is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.
Origin: Latin,alludere

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are in close proximity to each other.
Origin: medieval Latin, alliteratio(n-)