Poetry Literary Devices Review

Metaphor

• The attitude or mood the author creates

• The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• sound words

Imagery

• A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

• Creates a picture in the reader's mind

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• a deliberate exaggeration

Tone

• the attitude or mood the author creates

• a deliberate exaggeration

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

Simile

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as

Onomatopoeia

• Sound words

• A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• the message about life that the poem conveys

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Stanza

• A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• to repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

• words that end in the same sound, end rhyme

• the musical quality of a poem

Rhythm

• the pattern of rhymes

• The attitude or mood the author creates

• a deliberate exageration

• The musical quality of a poem

Meter

• a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated

• a deliberate exaggeration

• the pattern of rhymes

• the musical quality of a poem

Rhyme

• Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme

• sound words

• the rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

Alliteration

• The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words

• creates a picture in the reader's mind

• sound words

• a rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repeated