Poetic devices

May, say, lay, day, ray, and faye are examples of this.

• What is verse?

• What is rhyme?

• What is a line?

• What is repetition?

When a poem does not have any rhyme, a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and adheres to no form.

• What is haiku?

• What is free verse?

• What is lyric?

• What is a narrative?

A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, than, or resembles.

• What is a simile?

• What is a metaphor?

• What is a idiom?

• What is an extended metaphor?

Using comparisons in your writing. These should not be taken literally.

• What are literary terms?

• What are narrative terms?

• What are figures of speech?

• What are comparison terms?

A comparison of two unlike things using being verbs. The cat is a green frog.

• What is a metaphor?

• What is a simile?

• What is a hyperbole?

• What is an idiom?

The way that lines are grouped in a poem.

• What is a stanza?

• What is a line?

• What is a paragraph?

• What is a couplet?

Saying something is bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is. She scared me to death.

• What is a hyperbole?

• What is a extended metaphor?

• What is figure of speech?

• What is imagery?

Repetition of the same beginning sound in words. Suzy sold seashells by the seashore.

• What is assonance?

• What is consonance?

• What is repeated phrase?

• What is alliteration?

This is a comparison of two unlike things using being verbs that goes on for a stanza or even the entire poem.

• What is a long simile?

• What is a metaphor?

• What is an extended metaphor?

• What is imagery?

The author's attitude toward the character, the subject, or the audience.

• What is mood?

• What is tone?

• What is the message?

• What is subject?