Glossary+of+Poetic+Devices


 * Alliteration**- The repetition of initial consonant sounds.


 * Assonance**- The repetition of vowel sounds.


 * Imagery**- Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.


 * Metaphor**- A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison.


 * Onomatopoeia-** The use of words which imitate sound.


 * Personification**- A figure of speech which endows inanimate objects with human traits or abilities.


 * Point-of-view**- The author's point-of-view concentrates on the vantage point of the speaker, or "teller", of the story or poem.

information about what one character sees and feels. l characters are thinking.
 * **1st person**: the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective (uses "I")
 * **3rd person limited**: the speaker is not party of the story, but tells about the other characters but limits
 * **3rd person omniscient**: the speaker is not part of the story, but is able to "know" and describe what al


 * Repetition**- the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.


 * Rhyme**- The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.


 * Rhyme scheme**- The seuence in which the rhyme occurs. The first end soundis represented as the letter "a", the second is "b", etc.


 * Simile**- A comarison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than".


 * Stanza**- a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme.