Poetry Devices and Terms II

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onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like the sound

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personification

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Giving human qualities to non-human things

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anaphora

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Repetition of one or more words at the beginning of lines or phrases

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open form poetry

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A poem with no consistent elements like rhyme, meter, or line length

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parallelism

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Repetition of the same grammatical structure of sentences or phrases

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simile

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A comparison of two things using “like” or “as”

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hyperbole

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An exaggeration.

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metaphor

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A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

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alliteration

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words

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assonance

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The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words