Poetic Devices

A direct comparison between two unlike things

• metaphor

• simile

• allegory

• alliteration

A direct comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• alegory

• allusion

Words whose sound suggest their meaning

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• irony

• theme

_______ are to poetry as paragraphs are to prose

• stanzas

• rhyme scheme

• themes

• imagery

The poet's attitude about the subject of the poem

• tone

• theme

• free verse

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Using words to create mental pictures

• irony

• alliteration

• imagery

• metaphor

Deliberate repetition of consonant sounds

• assonance

• alliteration

• dissonance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Giving inanimate objects human characteristics

• metaphor

• imagery

• irony

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines of a poem or verse

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• free verse

• alliteration

Poetry free of regular rhyme or rhyme patterns

• rhyme scheme

• free verse

• personification

• form