Poetry Literary Devices

A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect.

Poets sometimes introduce a jump or shift in direction of the emotions, mood or thought

A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like or as

Septet

Couplet

Is a thought or clause that does not come to an end with a comma or full stop or other punctuation

The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person , a thing, a place, or an experience.

Deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work.

A poetic group of lines.

Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports or science

Is a traditional style of poem that has 14 lines. They have a regular rhymescheme (there is a pattern).

The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together.