Glossary of Poetic Devices

Poetic Device Definition Example

Alliteration The repetition of consonant I need not your needs, they’re
Needles to me
sounds
Hyperbole Exaggeration for dramatic I called you 150 times , you did not
pick my calls
effect
Metaphor A comparison without using Alice is a rose.
“like” or “as”
Onomatopoeia Using words that imitate You can hear the peep peep of the
chickens as they peck the ground.
sounds
Assigning human My shoes are laughing.
Personification
behaviors/qualities to
things/animals that are not
human.
Rhyme Repetition of the same sound Roses are red.
Simile A comparison using “like” or Peter is like a pig.
“as”
stanza A group of four lines in some Science, science what a wonderful
field!.
latin and greek meter
What a beautiful thing that you exist.
To bring mankind far greater yields.
Without you, life would be quick an
exit.
line Is a unit of language into which Thinking of mice and milk.
a poem or play is divided.
metre Is the basic rhythmic Shall i compare thee to a summer’s
day?.
structure of a line within a
work of poetry.
rhythm The beat and pace of a poem Burning and singing in sunshine.
rhyme Rhyme is principally a function Twinkle Twinkle little star.
of sound rather than spelling.
repetition Is the primary way of creating To the rhyming and chiming of the
bells!.
a pattern through rhythm.
synecdoche A figure of speech in which in You have my heart.
a part of something stands for
the whole.
symbol ● Symbolism is a literary Roses.
device where symbols
work to represent ideas
 contrast Antonym of simile Black is the opposite of white.
paradox

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7 lines.

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Weather history does not lie,
Something good is bidding us bye-bye,
As seasons have become chameleons,
Growing wilder each year like lions.

I heard something about climate change,

I even read from a geography page
That the massive destruction of the forest.