Assonance
Repition of vowel sounds in nearby words
Personification
Making inanimate objects / animals or birds look or feel human
Imagery
using figurative language to represent objects , actions and ideas appeal to our physical sense
Metaphor
Devices comparing two things or qualities which are unlike
Anaphora
Repition of the same word in successive lines
Transferred Epithet
A figure of speech which an epithet or adjective grammtically qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing (ie poet transfers his melancholic mood to the darkness of the night)
Refrain
A phrase or group of verses repeat at interveals throughout the poem (patter of the rain is repeated in rain on the roof)
Onomatopoeia
USing a word which suggests the meaning by its sound
Alliteration
Repittion of intial consonant sounds in the same time, (hover and humid in rain on the roog)
Visual Imagery
Use of words that create a visual representation
Auditory Imagery
Use of words that represent a sound a pleases sense of hearingRe
Repitition
Repetition of words/phrases in the same line to emphasize something