Alliteration - The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
Example:
Silently seeking the silky sounds.
Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds.
Example:
Elaine waited in plain train.
Rhyme - The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.
Example:
Inside, above the din and fray,
We heard the loud musicians play
Meter - The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Example:
We caught the tread of dancing feet,
We loitered down the moonlit street,
And stopped beneath the harlot's house.
(by: Oscar Wilde)
Onomatopoeia - The use of words which imitate sound.
Example:
He crashed into the car as he heard the screech of the wheels.
Repetition - the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.
Example:
Hear the sledges with the bells --
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
(by: Edgar Alan Poe)
Imagery - Words or phrases that use the senses or a combination of senses.
Example:
His could almost taste his fear as he smelt the fright of the bolting horse.
Personification - A figure of speech which endows animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits or abilities.
Example:
The window winked at me.
Poetic Devices - Point of View
Point-of-view - The author's point-of-view concentrates on the speaker, or "teller", of the story or poem.
Example:
Walking through the streets at night,
Looking at stars that shine so bright,
It hurts to consider things not to be.
Things not to had by me.
1st person: the speaker is a character in the story or poem and tells it from his/her perspective (uses "I")
Example:
Then, turning to my love, I said,
`The dead are dancing with the dead,
The dust is whirling with the dust.'
(by: Oscar Wilde)
3rd person: the speaker is not part of the story, but tells about the other characters.
Example:
His story is old,
His heart is young,
He the strong, noble one.
