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Poetic Devices
Term | Definition |
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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 |