Poetic Devices and Figures of speech

Simile

A direct comparison. Usually contains the words like or as. It's a comparison of two unlike things.

Metaphor

A statement that a thing is something else. It is not merely like it.

Personification

A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are given human characteristics. It is a kind of metaphor.

Apostrophe

An address to the inanimate as if human, the dead as if alive, or the absent as if present.

Hyperbole

Deliberate exaggeration for effect. It is common in everyday speech.

Irony

Saying the opposite of what one means in such a way that the meaning is, nevertheless, obvious.

Alliteration

Consists of a succession of similar consonant sounds.

Onomatopoeia

The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.

Assonance

Consists in using the same vowel sound in conjunction with different consonants.

Rhyme

The repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the end of words.