Literary Devices

I am the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

I create a picture in the reader’s mind

• Allieteration

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

I am the comparison of two different things. Doesn’t use like or as.

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Simile

• Metaphor

I am a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Meter

• Personification

I am a type of sound device where sounds like BANG! POP! or POW!

• Imagery

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Giving things that are not human, the personalities or actions of humans

• SImile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Personification

• Onomatiopoeia

The pattern of rhymes

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Personification

The musical quality of a poem.

• Rhythm

• Rhyme Scheme

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia