any image or thing that stands for something else

What does the following poem symbolize?

An elephant, a ponderous house,

A melon strolling on two tendrils.

O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!

a comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping words

In addition to rhyme, which poetic device do these lines show?

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Aside from rhyme, which poetic device do these lines show?

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

the associated or implied meanings of a word

the use of words that sound like what they mean: "I heard a fly buzz"

occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art- -"Bright Star" by John Keats

bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt someone's feelings

literature that ridicules human folly or vice in order to bring about some kind of reform

the repetition of final consonant sounds

an extended metaphor with complex logic, or a startling comparison, that governs a poetic passage or an entire poem

an overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally.

I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.

the repetition of vowel sounds.

Hear the mellow wedding bells. -"Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe

a type of refrain device, where the first word or phrase is repeated in a series of lines

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who make the Lamb make thee?