Poetic Devices Practice

The repetition of consonant sounds within a word, but not at the beginning 

• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• repetition

To repeat the same phrase or words numerous times in a poem

• onomatopoeia
• repetition
• stanza
• words

a long, narrative poem that tells an exciting or inspiring story, usually adapted for singing

• haiku
• cinquain
• sonnet
• ballad

the pattern of rhyming within a poem

• rhyme scheme
• onomatopoeia
• sonnet
• haiku

the arrangement of groups of lines in a poem; they are set off from each other by a blank line

• stanza
• meter
• limerick
• sonnet

the use of words that imitate sounds, like hiss or pow

• rhyme
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• personification

the repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds, such as in fade and hay or molten, golden notes

• alliteration
• assonance
• stanza
• rhyme

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words, kindergarten cop/ lazy lunch / fresh face

• alliteration
• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• rhyme

a comparison that uses like or as to compare two unlike things (The icy water was like stinging bees.)

• alliteration
• rhyme
• simile
• metaphor

type of figurative language that gives human qualities to something nonhuman (The clarinets sang.)

• onomatopoeia
• synonym
• symbol
• personfication