Poetry and Figurative Language

When a poet writes a sentence in an unusual way

• poetic inversion

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Repetition of a vowel

• poetic inversion

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Placing two opposites next to each

• poetic inversion

• assonance

• juxtaposition

strong nouns, adjectives and verbs to create a picture often using our senses

• vivid word choice or imagery

• poetic apostrophe

• extended metaphor

speaker talks to a thing or person not there as if they could understand

• vivid word choice or imagery

• poetic apostrophe

• extended metaphor

Implying a comparison between two like things for multiple stanzas or the whole poem

• vivid word choice or imagery

• poetic apostrophe

• extended metaphor

Refers to something the reader already knows like a famous person, story or event now or in history

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Repeating the same letter at the beginning of multiple words close together.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Repeating a consonant (not a vowel) sound inside or at end of words.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Consonance

Repeating a middle or ending sound in a pattern inside a poem to make it sing

Example: AABA

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Repetition