Poetic Devices
Though I've never taken a class in poetic science I've learned a bit about how it works form
various places so here's a List of some of the basics.
Alliteration - The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Example: Silently
Sitting
Staring into
Space
Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds.
Example:Alone
Alan
Ached.
Imagery - Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.
Example: tattered banners, and torn up flags Flew over body bags
(visual)The air
reeked of Chamomile and sex (Olfactory/Scent)The
Bittersweet Taste of blood lingered
(taste)like a
velvet Pill I couldn't swallow
(Texture/Touch)As the
sun screamed silently into the hallow
(auditory/Sound)Metaphor - A comparison between two Unlike objects without using like or as. Often
forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison.
Example: He/She
is my life.
Onomatopoeia - The use of words which imitate sound.
Example: Boom! The door caved in.
Personification - A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate
objects with human traits or abilities.
Example: The moon cried out in vain
Simile - A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as
"like", "as", or "than".
Example: He/She is
like the sun to me.
Stanza - a grouping of two or more lines of a poem.
Example:
On this dark and dismal night.
when every thing feels right.
I look up to see its only flaw.
the stars they're not there at all.
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