Sound
(From Shakespeare's The Tempest): "Full fathom five your father lies. . . "
alliteration
"His headaches were arson in Her Majesties dockyards"
Metaphor
When Robert Frost presents a narrator simply talking about his life.
Monologue
Sonnets are almost always written in this common meter.
Iambic Pentameter
A Navy seal being afraid of a mouse would be a good example of this.
Irony.
(From Emily Dickinson): "His notice sudden is."
Consonance
"Like grains of sand through the hour glass / so are the days of our lives."
Simile
These types of poems help you get back to nature.
Pastoral
This type of sonnet rhymes abba abba cde cde
Petrarchan Sonnet
The summary of the message of a poem or story, in once declarative sentence.
Theme
(From In Memory of John Coltrane): "Listen to the coal train roll, rolling through the cold. . ."
Assonance
"The saw rattled and snarled, rattled and snarled."
Onomatopoeia
Lady Macbeth: "Come you, spirits who tend on mortal thoughts"
Invocation
A Shakespearean sonnet ends with this pair of rhyming lines.
Couplet.
A writer using this is less interested in meaning and more interested in make you see, feel, smell, etc.
Imagery
The neighbors got a radio with an aerial / We got a little portable.
Near rhyme
Biff is the brains of the operation
Synecdoche
Emily Dickinson's "preachiness" puts this type of label on her poetry.
Didactic Poetry
Two couplets in a row would create this type of stanza.
Quatrain.
You can infer this attitude-related dynamic in a poem by words and images the poet uses.
Tone
Flowing, smooth, pleasing sounds. . .
Euphony
Jimi Hendrix: "And the wind cries Mary."
Personification
Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" is his ____ to the recently dead Lincoln.
Ode
Iambic pentameter rhythm without the rhyming punch (Robert Frost uses it a lot).
Blank Verse
The idea behind a setting sun and a rising sun could be examples of this in a poem or story.
Symbol