poetic devices

Alliteration

same starting consonant sounds

Assonance

repeated vowel sounds

Consonance

repeated consonant sounds

rhyme

similar ending sounds

Euphony

pleasant sounds

Cacophony

harsh sounds

Metaphor

direct comparison

Simile

comparison using like/as

Personification

human traits to non-human

Verbal Irony

opposite of what is meant

hyperbole

exaggeration

understatenment

minimizing

diction

word choice

allusion

outside reference

apostrophe

addressing absent/abstract

symbol

object represents idea

imagery

sensory language

anafora

repetition at the beginning

Epistrophe

repetition at the end

Polysyndeton

many conjunctions

Asyndeton

no conjunctions

anadiplosis

end → beginning repetition

Epanalepsis

beginning → end repetition

Antimetabole

reversed word order

Parallel Structure

 repeated grammar pattern