Poets Use of Language

Using your words to help the reader create a picture in their minds

• Imagery

• Sibilance

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

Comparing two things using like or as

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Anaphora

Comparing two things by saying one thing is the other thing

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Alliteration

Giving non-human things human characteristics

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Symbols

• Personification

The use of a noun (person, place or thing) to represent big ideas or emotions.

• Capitalism

• Repetition

• Socialism

• Symbolism

The same letter or sound at the beginning of words close together

• Alliteration

• Anaphora

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

The creation of words to describe sounds.

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

When the same vowel sound is repeated in words that are near each other.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Assonance

A description of things that the speaker can smell.

• Auditory Imagery

• Visual Imagery

• Olfactory Imagery

• Tactile Imagery

Words and phrases are used more than once for impact

• Repetition

• Adjective

• Alliteration

• Assonance