imagery is one of the more commonly used poetic device.
Sound Devices
- Alliteration-repetition of initial consonant sounds.
- Assonance-repetition of vowel sounds.
- Onomatopoeia-use of words which imitate sound.
- Rhyme-the similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.
- Rhyme scheme-the sequence in which the rhyme occurs.the first end sound is represented as the letter "a" the second "b" etc.
- Repetition-the recurring of words,phrases,lines or stanzas.
Figurative Language
- Simile-a comparison between two objects using a specific word of comparison such as "like" "as" or "than".
- Metaphor-a comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them.
- Personification-a figure of speech which endows animals ,ideas or inanimate,objects with human traits or abilities.
Metrics
- Meter- the recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
- Stanza-a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length,metrical form,or rhyme scheme.
Point of View
Point-of-view the author's point of view concentrates on the vantage point of the speaker or "teller" of the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective (uses I)
3rd person Limited-the speaker is not part of the story,but tells about the other characters though limited information about what one character sees and feel.
3rd person Omniscient-the speaker is not part of the story but "knows"and describes what all characters are thinking.