Poetic Devices

1. A direct comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. (Calling one thing, something else.)
3. Imagery Words used to stimulate the five senses.
5. The repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of two or more successive lines, clauses or phrases (although not always immediately consecutive).
10. A thing which stands for or represents something else.
11. The repetition of consonant sounds in words close by.
12. The repetition of the ‘s’, ‘sh’, ‘z’, or ‘ch’ sound in words close having a hissing or hushing effect.
13. A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.

2. The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. (sound words)
4. An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
5. The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
6. A figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory terms appear side by side.
7. A comparison using ‘like’, or ‘as’ or ‘than’ between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
8. Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighbouring words.
9. Giving living qualities to non-living things.