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Devices for analysis of Poetry in English GCSE (some may overlap with non poetry related devices)
Dramatic monologue
a poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener
Monorhyme
the use of only one rhyme in a stanza (AAAA)
Direct address
speaking directly to the audience
Antithesis
the direct opposite, a sharp contrast
Parallelism
similar / identical of structure of related words, phrases, lines
Isocolon
use of parallel structures of the same length in successive clauses (less exact than parallelism)
Alternate rhyme
ABAB
Enjambment
no punctuation at the end of a line
Dub Poetry
Combining spoken poetry with reggae music or rhythms
Refrain
repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines
iambic pentameter
a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds (ex. Killed, cold, culled)
Synedoche
using one part of an object to represent the entire object (ex. Heart & body)
Polysyndetic list
"And.... And.... And" conjunctions used after each term on the list
Asyndetic list
a list with no conjunctions
Polyptoton
repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings
Volta
A turning point in a poem, when the argument or tone changes dramatically
Interjection
Use of "O" to exaggerate ex. "O hear me"
Note 
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