| Definition | Poetic Device |
| Two successive lines usually in the same meter linked by end rhyme | |
| The inspiration that motivates a poet, artist, or thinker | |
| The repetition of beginning consonant sounds | |
| rhymes that occur at the ends of lines | |
| A break or pause in the middle of a ine caused by a mark of punctuation or by a natural pause in breath | |
| The repetition of important syllables, usually at the ends of words | |
| the representation of sense experiences through language | |
| figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | |
| The character in the poem who is speaking | |
| When the thought of one line of poetry runs into the next line without a break | |
| a row of words printed on the same line of paper | |
| The writer's or speaker's attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself | |
| A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object or a concept | |
| | Definition | Poetic Device |
| A comparison between two things without like or as | |
| A reference to a work of literature or to an actual event, person, or place which the author expects the audience to recognize | |
| A comparison between two unlike things that is never explicitly states as a metaphor or simile and lasts throughout the entire poem. | |
| A four line stanza | |
| A comparison between two essentially unlike things using like or as | |
| A repeated line, group of lines, or entire stanza, normally at some fixxed position in a poem | |
| A rhyme in which both of the rhyming words occur within one line | |
| compound words that thake the place of simpler terms in an attempt to be more descriptive | |
| A pattern of rhyme in a poem labeled alphabetically at the ends of the lines | |
| A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains | |
| The central idea and meaning of a literary work | |
| Any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound | |
| The use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning with their sound | |
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