poetic devices

Alliteration: using 2 or more connective words that begin with the same sound (eg: the wind whispered)

(Eg: Peter piper picked a peck)

(Eg:dreams die)

Allusion a reference to people or events that are well known from myth’s, literature, or history

Hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration used to create a mood on effect

Eg: I am dead, dead to you as can be- Eminem

Eg: jaw dropped to the ground

Stanzas: a group of lines which are set off and form a division in a poem and are sometimes linked with other stanzas by rhyme

Rhyme: repetition of sound

Refrain: the repetition of whole words, phrases, lines otr groups of lines according to some fixed pattern (liked a song chorus)

Couplet: two lines or verses that usually rhyme and state are complete ideas

Persona: the view point a writer adopts or the character they become to tell a story

Paradox: something that seems contradictory but has an element of truth (eg: the river flowed both ways)

(eg: the more you suffer, the more it shows you care

Elegy: a poem of grief for someone’s death

Ode: a serios poem addressed to a praised person or object

Lyric: a short poem that seems especially musical and what expresses the poets emotions

Sonnet: a lyric poem with a traditional form of 14 lines

Onomatopoeia: the use of words where the sense of image is suggested by the sound

Eg: swish, bang, pow, sizzle

Oxymoron a short  phrase that uses a contradiction, stupid genius, honest lawyer, bone day, happy death, jumbo shrimp, wise fool

Epic: long story poem about the adventures of a hero