Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the ...
Poetic Device Glossary with Examples
|Alliteration - The repetition of consonant sounds at the |"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." |
|beginning of words. | |
|Allusion - Where a poem makes reference to another poem or |“Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom |
|text. |purchased anything except the bare necessities" |
|Apostrophe - An address to a person absent or dead or to an |“What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the |
|abstract entity |sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full |
| |moon.” |
| |A Supermarket in California |
| |Allen Ginsberg |
|Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds in the words of |'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies |
|the poem. | |
|Cacophony – The use of harsh or meaningless mixture of |We want no parlay with you and your grisly gang who work your wicked will. |
|sounds. Harsh joining of sounds. |W. Churchill |
|Diction - Poet's distinctive choices in vocabulary. |"My mother’s countenance |
| |Could not unfrown itself." |
| |My Papa’s Waltz |
| |Theodore Roethke |
|Hyperbole – An expression of exaggeration. |"I nearly died laughing." |
|Idioms – Expressions that have a meaning apart from the |"It's raining cats and dogs." |
|meanings of the individual words. | |
|Imagery - Mental pictures created by the words of the poem. |“a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water” |
|Metaphor – A figure of speech that compares two unlike things|"Her hair is silk." |
|directly, without the use of like or as. | |
|Meter - The measured arrangement of words in poems. |[pic] |
|Onomatopoeia - Using words which imitate the sound they refer|"Boom. Gurgle. Plunk, Buzzzzz." |
|to. | |
|Oxymoron - A seeming contradiction in two words put together.|Freezer Burn |
|Personification - Endowing animals, objects or ideas with |"The tropical storm slept for two days." |
|human traits or abilities (the trees laughed at us). |“The trees laughed at us” |
|Point of View: First person - The writer is in the poem and |“I came upon two paths…” |
|tells it from his/her perspective. | |
|Point of View: Third person - The writer tells the poem from |“He came upon two paths...” |
|an objective perspective. | |
|Point of View: Third person omniscient - The writer isn't in |“John didn't want to choose, and Mary hated both paths...” |
|the poem, but knows and describes what all characters are | |
|thinking. | |
|Puns - Words with a humorous double meaning, a "play on |"A dog not only has a fur coat but also pants." |
|words." | |
|Repetition - Repeating of words, phrases, lines, sounds, or |“Because I do not hope to turn again |
|stanzas. |Because I do not hope |
| |Because I do not hope to turn....” |
|Rhyming Couplet - A pair of lines which end-rhyme expressing |My English teacher wants me to use imagination |
|one clear thought |So I go to math class and let my mind go on vacation! |
|Rhythm - Internal 'feel' of beat and metre perceived when |How doth the little crocodile |
|poetry is read aloud |Improve his shining tail, |
| |And pour the waters of the Nile |
| |On every golden scale! |
| |How cheerfully he seems to grin, |
| |How neatly spreads his claws, |
| |And welcomes little fishes in |
| |With gently smiling jaws! |
| |Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| |Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
|Rhyme - Identical or similar ending sounds between two words |“I enjoyed the shade in the hidden glade. And spread out the picnic that I had |
|or lines. |made.” |
|Tone (mood) - Feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem. |Stark naked flower stalks |
| |Stand shivering in the wind. |
| |The cheerless sun hides its black light |
| |Behind bleak, angry clouds, |
| |While trees vainly try |
| |To catch their escaping leaves. |
| |Carpets of grass turn brown, |
| |Blending morosely with the dreary day. |
| |Winter seems the death of life forever. |
| |Winter Garden |
|Rhyme pattern - The way the rhymes occur in a poem (First and|Who will go drive with Fergus now, a |
|third lines of each stanza, for example). |And pierce the deep wood's woven shade, b |
| |And dance upon the level shore? c |
| |Young man, lift up your russet brow, a |
| |And lift your tender eyelids, maid, b |
| |And brood on hopes and fear no more. c |
|Simile - A comparison of objects using "like", "as", or |"His feet were as big as boats." |
|"than" or similar words. | |
|Stanza - One of the divisions of a poem; a grouping of two or|[pic] |
|more lines. |The Tyger |
| |William Blake |
|Symbolism - Sing an object to represent an idea. A symbol |Lions often symbolize royalty. |
|means what it is and also something more. | |
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