Poetic Devices

The repetition of one or more beginning sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Prose

Language that greatly overstates or exaggerates for comic effect.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Term indicating the way something appears differs from reality, either in meaning, situation, or action. For example, a character stepping outside in a hurricane and saying, "what nice weather we're having!"

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

• Assonance

A figure of speech that compares unlike objects without using connecting terms such as like or as.

• Consonance

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

A statement that combines two terms usually as seen as opposites. Example: jumbo shrimp

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Prose

A figure of speech in which objects or animals are given human qualities.

• Personification

• Foot

• Metaphor

• Irony

A play on words that have similar sounds but different meanings.

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Prose

A figurative comparison using the words like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Prose

• Alliteration

Applying human like attributes to nonhuman objects is ___________________.

The repetition of initial (as the start) consonant sounds for successive words.