Sound & Rhythm
“She sells seashells by the seashore.”
alliteration
“Her smile was like sunshine.”
simile
“The sun hovered above / the horizon, waiting.”
enjambment
“The crimson petals of the rose glistened with dew.”
imagery
“He was a real Romeo with the ladies.”
allusion
“The light of the fire is a sight.”
assonance
“Time is a thief.”
The repeated use of “Nevermore” in The Raven.
Refrain
A dove representing peace.
symbolism
“She likes cooking, jogging, and reading.”
parallelism
“The lumpy, bumpy road.”
consonance
“The wind whispered through the trees.”
personification
A stanza of four lines, often with rhyme scheme ABAB.
Quatrain
“The fire station burned down.”
“I have a dream… I have a dream…”
anaphora
“The bees buzzed in the garden.”
Onomatopoeia
“I’ve told you a million times.”
hyperbole
A 14-line poem, often in iambic pentameter.
sonnet
“Less is more.”
paradox
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
antithesis
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Iambic Pentameter
“O Death, where is thy sting?”
apostrophe
“To be or not to be— that is the question.”
caesura
“Bittersweet” or “deafening silence.”
oxymoron
“All hands on deck” (hands = sailors).
Synecdoche/Metonymy