Poetic+Devices


 * simile || a comparison using "as" or "like"  ||
 * alliteration || the deliberate repetition of consonant sounds  ||
 * assonance || deliberate repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds  ||
 * apostrophe || an address to a person absent or dead or to an abstract entity  ||
 * diction || poet's distinctive choices in vocabulary  ||
 * echo || repetition of key word or idea for effect  ||
 * hyperbole || exaggeration for dramatic effect  ||
 * metaphor || a comparison not using as or like when one thing is said to be another  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">onomatopoeia || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">"sound echoing sense"; use of words resembling the sounds they mean  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">oxymoron || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">a seeming contradiction in two words put together  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">paradox || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">seeming contradiction that surprises by its pithiness  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">personification || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">attribution of human motives or behaviours to impersonal agencies  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">rhyming couplet || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">a pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing one clear thought  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">rhyme || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">repetition of same sounds  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">rhythm || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">internal 'feel' of beat and metre perceived when poetry is read aloud  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">tone, mood || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 28pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem  ||