| Enjambment | Continuing a sentence beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza |
| Assonance | The same / similar sound used in syllables of words near each other |
| Ballad | Ancient poem telling a story |
| Couplet | A pair of lines of verse usually the same length |
| Octet / Octave | First 8 lines in a sonnet |
| Pentameter | A line of 10 syllables |
| Quatrain | A stanza / group of 4 lines usually with alternate rhymes |
| Sonnet | A 14-line poem |
| Stanza | Four or more rhymed lines repeated as a unit |
| Verse | A group of lines in a poem |
