Literary Devices in Poetry

A word that sounds like the noise it describes

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

Describing something non-human with human qualities

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

Repeats the beginning consonant sounds of words

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Simile

A poem in which the ends of the lines have words that sound the same 

• Simile

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

Compares two different things saying the one is the other, without using 'like' or 'as'

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

The example underlined below is an example of...

The wind whipped the branches all around,

As the rain fell silently to the ground.

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Simile

Jonathan was so angry that he blew his top like a volcano.

This is an example of...

• Personification

• A Simile

• A Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

A horse goes 'neigh!' and a cow goes 'moo'.

These are examples of...

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Repetition

The sky was so clear last night that we could see the stars winking at us.

This is an example of...

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• A Metaphor

• Enjambment (Run-on Lines)