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Poetic Devices

TermDefinition
Simile A comparison using like or as
Persona The speaker of the poem
Stanza Poetic paragraph
Meter
Rhythm Patterns of beats or stresses
Couplet A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length or meter.
Rhyme The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
Internal Rhyme When one of the rhyming words appears within a line
Free Verse Poetry that is not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Anaphora A type of parallelism created when successive phrases or lines begin with the same words
Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables.
Consonance The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds.
Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Onomatopoeia the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Imagery A description that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
Symbol A character, place, thing, or event that stands for something else, often an abstract idea.
Allusion A reference to literature, music, places, historical events, or mythology.
Metaphor A comparison of two unlike things NOT using like or as
Personification A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
Apostrophe An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.
Hyperbole A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
Irony The differences between appearance and reality or expectation and result.
Juxtaposition a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts
Paradox A statement that seems contradictory but that actually expresses a deeper truth.
Tone The author’s attitude toward a subject
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