1. Poetic Devices
The Sounds of Poetry

2. Onomatopoeia When a word’s pronunciation imitates its sound. Examples
Buzz Fizz Woof
Hiss Clink Boom
Beep Vroom Zip

3. Repetition Repeating a word or words for effect. Example Nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody

4. Rhythm
When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat.
Example
There once was a girl from Chicago
Who dyed her hair pink in the bathtub
I’m making a pizza the size of the sun.
Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.

5. Rhyme When words have the same end sound.
Happens at the beginning, end, or middle of lines.
Examples
Where
Fair
Air
Bear
Glare

6. Alliteration When the first sounds in words repeat. Example
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper.
We lurk late. We shoot straight.

7. SIMILIES
The simile is a figure of speech that describes something by comparing or establishing its similarity to something else, using ‘like’ or ‘as’. This device makes the description more emphatic.
as gentle as a lamb MEANS Gentle, non-reactive
...to sleep like a log MEANS To sleep soundly.

8. Metaphors
Metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their writing more interesting or entertaining.
Unlike similes that use the words “as” or “like” to make a comparison, metaphors state that something is something else.
Cindy was such a mule. We couldn’t get her to change her mind.
The metaphor compares Cindy to a mule because she was very stubborn

9. Personification
Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).
For example: The window winked at me. The verb, wink, is a human action. A window is a non-living object.