1. Poetic Devices

2. Sound Devices
Rhyme

3. Rhyme: Single Rhyme
Love, dove

4. Double Rhyme
Napping tapping

5. Triple Rhyme
Mournfully, scornfully

6. Imperfect Rhyme Two words that look alike, but don’t sound alike:
Love, jove

7. Internal Rhyme
Occurs inside a line: to beat the heat

8. Masculine Rhyme
When the final syllables rhyme:
Intent, content

9. Feminine Rhyme
When more than one syllable rhymes, but with no emphasis on the final syllable
Weather, heather

10. Other sound devices
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
alliteration

11. Assonance A resemblance of vowel sounds in words or syllables
O’ harp and altar of the fury fused

12. Onomatopoeia When a word sounds like its meaning:
Drip, whisper, hiss, hoot, murmur, crunch, crackle

14. Alliteration Words beginning with same consonant sound
In a summer season when soft was the son

19. Picture Devices: Imagery
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Allusion
Hyperbole
Understatement
Irony
Antithesis
Synecdoche
Metonymy

20. Metaphor Two unlike things directly compared
The river is a snake which coils on itself

21. Simile Two unlike things compared using “like” or “as”
The man paced like a hungry lion

22. Personification Giving human qualities to things
The trees danced in the breeze

24. Allusion
Referring metaphorically to persons, places or things from literature, history, religion or mythology
With Herculean strength

25. Hyperbole Saying more than is true
He played guitar until he wore his fingers to the bone

27. Understatement Saying less than is true
Losing his job meant he could sleep late

28. You may be smoking
a bit too much

29. Irony
Saying the opposite of what is true, or when the intended meaning is different from the actual meaning
War is kind

30. IRONY!

31. Antithesis Contrasts for effect for emphasis
Deserts are dry, oceans are wet

32. Synecdoche
Using parts for the whole “all hands on deck”

33. Metonymy Substituting one word for another
The scales of justice are fair

34. Form and Structure Stanza Forms

35. Rhyme scheme: indicated by a capital letters indicating rhyming words: AABB, ABAB, ABCB

36. Names for stanzas: Couplet: two rhyming lines Tercet: three
Quatrain: 4
Quintet: 5
Sestet: 6 (often 3 sets of couplets)
Octave: 8

37. Sonnet: 14 line stanza
Shakespearean: 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet
ABAB CDCD, EFEF GG