Poetic Devices Review

Old Marley was as dead as a door nail.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• understatement

“No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.” (Dickens, A Christmas Carol)

• alliteration

• allusion

• metaphor

• personification

“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw

• paradox

• alliteration

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

The structure of an atom is like a solar system. The nucleus is the sun, and electrons are the planets revolving around their sun.

• simile

• metaphor

• analogy

• consonance

Boom

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

“I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.”— With Love, by Thin Lizzy

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..." - The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

• end rhyme

• no rhyme

• internal rhyme

The river moaned as it danced across the rocks.

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

• simile

Mr. Glotfelty is a big, fat baboon.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• simile

• end rhyme

• extended metaphor