Stage 42 Poetic Devices

parallel structure (parallelism)

Recurrence of grammatical pattern

Anaphora

repetition of a word or phrase

Alliteration

repetition of consonantal sounds

Assonance

repetition of vowel sounds

Metonymy

substituting a word for a related word.

Polysyndeton

list of connectives to add emphasis

Synecdoche

Substituting a part for a whole

Personification

description of inanimate object or concept using human qualities.

Synchesis

ABAB word order

Chiasmus

ABBA word order

Metaphor

an indirect comparison without like or as

Simile

an expressed comparison using like or as

Transferred epithet

the application of a modifier to a word other than the one to which is belongs, grammatically

Word Picture

using the placement of words to reflect the literal meaning.