free of any rhyme

Free verse

Simile

comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though

pattern at the end of each line

Rhyme

Refrain

repeated words or phrases

repetition of the initial consonant

Alliteration

Literary devices

Personificatio n

giving human qualities to animals or objects has two meanings at the same time

reference to a famous person

Allusion

Pun

POEMS
comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. Analogy Onomatopoeia

word imitates the original sound

repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence

Assonance

Metaphor

one thing is said to be another

hints

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

involving exaggeration