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| The repetition of vowel sounds; Ex. I feel the need, the need for speed. |
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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds; Ex: Rain reigns roughly through the day. |
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| the comparison of two unlike things by saying one is the other. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison, Ex. Clouds are ships in full sail... |
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| the comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like or as the other, Ex. Sunshine, like hope aglow... |
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| The use of words that imitate sounds, Ex. buzz and crack |
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| the giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits, Ex. Anger frowns and snarls... |
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| the repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanzas, Ex. The sailor went to sea, sea, sea, To see what he could see, see, see |
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| The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words |
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| a grouping of two or more lines of a poem; a "paragraph" of poetry |
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| something which represents something else besides itself, Ex. The dove, wth olive branch in its beak... |
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| a reference to another time, work, person, Ex. I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father... |
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the use of contradictory terms together for effect, Ex. Freezing heat of hate... |
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| the addressing of a person, place, object, ect. which is not there, Ex. Where, O death, they sting? where, O death, thy victory? |
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| grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry (like a question mark), usually near the middle of the line, Ex. To err is human; to forgive, divine... |
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| the dictionary meaning of a word |
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| the associations called up by a word that goes beyond the dictionary meaning. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in ___________. |
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| a pair of lines that rhyme and have the same meter (number of stressed and unstressed syllables) Ex. Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold... |
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a run-on line of poetry in which logical ad grammatical sense carries ove from one line into the next, Ex. I think that I shall never see,
A poem as lovely as a tree... |
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| a line of poetry in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. |
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