Use of clues that hint at future events.
Foreshadowing
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
Imagery
Arrangement of groups of lines to create an appearance on the page or to organize thoughts.
Stanza
Contrast between an actual outcome and what the reader or characters expect will happen.
Irony
Describe one thing as if it were something else.
Metaphors
Rhythmical pattern, or arrangement and number of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Gives human qualities to something nonhuman.
Personification
The character or voice who tells the poem.
Speaker
Use like or as to compare two unlike things.
Similes
Writing that is innovative, imaginative, and not meant to be taken literally.
Figurative Language
Use of words that imitate sounds.
Onomatopoeia