Fiction: A deliberately fabricated account of something. It can also be a literary work based on imagination rather than on fact, like a novel or short story.

Non-Fiction: This is the account of something that actually happened. Creative non-fiction is focused on the STORY, as opposed to making an argument or convincing your audience of something.

Novel: A novel is a book-length story. Always fiction.

Poetic Line:  A unit of verse ending in a typographical break. Usually, this represents a slight pause or hesitation.

Rhyme:  The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Example: June–moon.

Rhyme Scheme: this is the pattern by which lines rhyme with each other– for example, in a ballad, the first and third and second and fourth lines usually rhyme. Some forms have strict rhyme schemes, others are more flexible.

Stanza: a set amount of lines in poetry grouped together by their length, meter or rhyme scheme (it looks, often, like a paragraph) Syllable = the single, unbroken sound of a spoken or written word.