Poetic Devices

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Alliteration

Repeated sounds at the beginning of words

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Assonance

Repeated vowel sounds at the middle or end of successive words

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Consonance

Repeated consonant sounds at the middle or end of successive words

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Metonymy

Referring to something by the name of something associated with it (ex. Business person being described as a suit)

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Synecdoche

Using part of something to refer to the whole (ex. Houston won the game against Dallas)

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Apostrophe

Addressing someone not present or talking to a personified object

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Anaphore

Repeated words or phrases at the beginning of lines

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Epistrophe

Repeated words or phrases at the end of lines

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Zeugma

One word applies to two others in different senses

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Double Entendre

Double meaning

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Blank verse

Poetry without rhyme, but that has iambic pentameter