Literary Devices
a comparison between two unlike things
Metaphor
word which imitates the natural sounds
Onomatopoeia
a line or group of lines separated by a blank space of indention
Stanza
Musical device: "Did you hear that BOOM, BADOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BADOOM, BOOM, BASS!"
Onomatopoeia
object or action that means something more than its literal meaning
Symbol
repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
two lines is called a
Couplet
Rhyme Scheme:
I came up once and hollered!
I came up twice and cried!
If that water hadn't a-been so cold
I might've sunk and died.
ABCB
a thing is given human attributes
Personification
repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text
Quatrain
Musical device: I feel like making melodies in my heart.
Alliteration
language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words
Imagery
repetition of similar vowel sounds within a line
Assonance
Rhyme Scheme:
I don't know when it happened.
I don't know when she came,
But she's the one I always knew.
Grandma was her name.
ABCB
Literary device: Telling a quiet group, “don’t speak all at once”
Irony (verbal)
what the reader expects to happen doesn’t happen
Irony
a repeated verse, a line, a phrase, or a group of lines
Refrain
Musical Device:
Excelsior
There is a twilight cold and gray,
Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay…
A voice fell like a falling star,
Excelsior.
Repetition
Literary device: She felt like she had a golden ticket.
Allusion