Literary Terms and Devices

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Quatrain

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A set of four lines.

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Alliteration

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The same sound is at the beginning of closely connected words.

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Repetition

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Words, phrases, or ideas that are repeated throughout a text.

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Metaphor

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Referring to one thing by calling it another to show or suggest their similarities.

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Sound Devices

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Patterns of sound that occur within and between words that create rhythm or effect.

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Figurative Language

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Phrases that are not meant to be taken literally but are used for creative or rhetorical meaning (e.g., metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, allusion, euphemism, symbolism, allegory, emblem, and idiom).

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Structure

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The physical arrangement of a poem, including how many lines, line length, line breaks, stanzas, white spaces between the stanzas, indents, or the specific form.

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Line

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A group of words arranged into a row.

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Rhyme Scheme

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The pattern of rhyming lines which is named at the end of each line using letters of the alphabet.