Poetic Devices

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  1. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  2. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  3. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  4. allegory
    a short moral story
  5. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  6. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  7. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  8. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  9. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  10. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  11. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  12. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  13. consonance
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  14. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  15. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  16. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  17. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  18. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  19. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  20. meter
    a basic unit of length (approximately 1.094 yards)
  21. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Created on Tue Nov 20 17:29:12 EST 2012 (updated Thu Feb 21 20:38:00 EST 2013)

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