Literary and Poetic Devices

A word that sounds like the noise it describes

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• simile

An exaggerated statement

• rhyme
• metaphor
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Describes something non-human with human qualities

• Internal Rhyme
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration

When two or more words create a rhyme in the same line of a poem or verse

• Internal Rhyme
• Simile
• Allusion
• Assonance

Comparing using like or as

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Personification

Repeats the beginning consonant sounds in words

• rhyme
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• alliteration

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

• rhyme
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile

A reference that is made indirectly, subtly suggested, or implied to somebody or something, using only a word or two

• alliteration
• allusion
• acrostic
• internal rhyme

Compares two different things saying the one is the other--does not use like or as to compare

• alliteration
• rhyme
• personification
• metaphor

The repetition of two or more of the same vowel sounds in a word 

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• assonance