Literary Devices

The speaker of the poem addresses an imaginary or inanimate object

repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in 2 or more words

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

foster

Stanza with 6 lines

Shakespearean Sonnet is also called

the repetition of same or similar vowel sounds in words that are close together

Haiku

no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement

unrhymed poetry or dramatic verse written in iambic pentameter

Compares words in a sentence using like or as

Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme

Compares words in a sentence by renaming them

the act of giving non-living things human characteristics

Expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings.

Stanza with 8 lines

frugal

continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next without pause

placing two or more distinct things side by side in order to contrast or compare them

Stanza with five lines

each line has five feet-each foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

a piece of literature that emphasizes the line, rather than the sentence

a tool that uses the sounds of language to add a musical quality to poetry

Tanka

recurrence of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a poem

Stanza with two lines

Stanza with four lines

Haiku

repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words that do not rhyme

Parallelism is creating sentences that are similar in: