Literary Devices & Figurative Language

poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza

use of a word that imitates sounds

group of lines forming a unit in a poem

Using something (word, sound) over and over in a poem

Using something to represent something else (flag-country)

extreme exaggeration

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.  Used to state ideas in vivid ways

voice in a poem

words & phrases used to describe how something in the poem looks, sounds, tastes, feels, smells

a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats

Comparison NOT using like or as.  Saying something IS something else

The idea the author is trying to get across or teach the reader

Comparison using like or as

repetition of initial sounds

Language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics