Poetry Devices and Figurative Language

The “I” voice in a poem; not necessarily the poet!

• speaker

• poet

• narrator

• character

any language that appeals to the reader’s five senses. If it helps the to imagine what something looks, tastes, smells, sounds, or feels like, it’s this!

• mood

• imagery

• theme

• metaphor

The emotional impact the author creates through word choice, imagery, and devices.

• imagery

• mood

• allusion

• theme

A reference to something outside of a literary work, like a Bible story or verse.

• imagery

• allusion

• mood

• theme

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Diction

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Theme

A word that sounds like what it means. 

• Onomatopoeia

• Consonance

• Metaphor

• Verse

Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• Plot Elements

• Figurative Language

• Sensory Language

• Literal Language

Words within the lines that rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Exact Rhyme

• Near Rhyme

• End Rhyme

Which literary device is being conveyed in the following line?
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so"

• juxtaposition 

• metaphor

• symbolism

• apostrophe

The following line is an example of which sound device?
I think I like the bright, pink kite. 

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• repetition

• alliteration