poetic device definition

This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

Alliteration

This is the emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word.

Connotation

This goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create special effects or feelings.

Figurative Language

This is a phrase in common use that can not be understood by literal or ordinary meanings.

Idiom

This is the use of language that appeals to the five senses--touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight.

Imagery

This occurs within a line of poetry when two words have similar ending sounds.

Internal Rhyme

This is the use of words that sound like the noises they describe.

Onomatopoeia

This is a type of figurative language in which human qualities are given to nonhuman things.

Personification

This is the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words.

Rhyme

This occurs within a line of poetry when two words have similar ending sounds.

Rhyme

This is the regular pattern of rhyme found at the ends of lines in poems.

Rhyme Scheme

This is the musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Rhythm

This is a group of related lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

Stanza

This refers to a writer's arrangement or overall design of a literary work. It is the way words, sentences, and paragraphs are organized to create a complete work.

Structure

This is a person, place, thing, or event that represents something more than itself in a literary work.

Symbol

This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.

Tone

This is the feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading.

mood

This is a comparison of two unlike things using the terms "like" or "as".

simile