Figurative Language & Literary Devices
Human characteristics to inanimate things
Personification
She was my Kryptonite
Allusion
Four-line rhyming scheme
Quatrain
Repeats the same word or line over and over again
Repetition
Boom, Crash, Thud
Onomatopoeia
A comparison using like or as
Simile
The flowers were dancing
Personification
Poem that doesn't follow a specific rhyme scheme or meter
Free verse
Sounds described by words
Onomatopoeia
She sells sea shells
Alliteration
An over-exaggeration
Hyperbole
The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow
Imagery
Describes the rhythm or a pattern of beats in a line
Meter
The attitude of the author towards a certain topic
Tone
Joyful, serious, sad, dark
Tone
Compares two things that are opposite
Juxtaposition
Her eyes were fireflies
Metaphor
Consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter
Couplet
Uses words that begin with the same letter or sound
Alliteration
Stay safe, stay well, stay happy
Go big or go home, Be bold.
Be brief. Be gone
Anaphora
Opposing words next to each other
Oxymoron
A small flower growing from the crack in the sidewalk
Symbolism
Written in unrhymed, but metered lines
Blank verse
Repetition of the sound of a vowel
Assonance
He kind knight rides by
Assonance