poetic devices
Verse craft elements
Poetic devices are techniques writers use to create rhythm, sound, imagery, or emphasis in verse and prose.
The category includes rhyme, meter, alliteration, metaphor, simile, personification, and dozens more.
The poem's poetic devices—its internal rhyme and vivid imagery—elevated simple observations into something memorable.
The term appears most often in literary analysis and classroom discussion.
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- figurative languageNon-literal modes of expression
- litotesUnderstatement via negation
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
assonance · internal rhyme · end rhyme · symbolism · meter · iambic pentameter · synecdoche · alliteration · diction · caesura · euphony · volta · enjambment · apostrophe · rhythm · chiasmus · prosody · zeugma
- poetrypoem, poems, verse, verses, rhyme
- books and reading poetrypoems, verse, sonnets, haiku, rhyme
- literary devicesmetaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, alliteration
- poetry termsrhyme, verse, rhythm, meter, beat
- literary referenceplot summaries, lexicons, compendiums, literary history, literary movements
- literary stylelyricism, diction, prose style, eloquence, word choice
poetic devicestechnical writing
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