Poetry Revising Language Devices...
alliteration assonance sibilance simile metaphor nine naughty nippers The repetition of words starting with the same letter alliteration how now brown cow The repetition of similar vowel sounds assonance six sizzling sausages The repetition of words with a hissing sound sibilance as black as night The direct comparison of one thing with another simile cotton wool clouds The description of one thing in terms of another metaphor
rhyme repetition half rhyme high fly sky The use of words with a similar sound rhyme the smiling sun The presentation of an object with human qualities personification hot hot hot The use of the same word several times repetition flash flesh fish The use of words with a vaguely similar sound half rhyme