Poetic Device Terms
Assonance – Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases and/or
sentences (example: That solitude which suits abstruse musings. The vowel sound being “ou”)
Internal Rhyme - rhyme between a word within a line and another word either at the end of the
same line or within another line (example: I am the daughter of Earth and Water)
Symbolism - the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Stylized Language – Language made to look like a style or a pattern rather than the way it would
normally look
Consonance – Repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession (example:
“Pitter Patter “or “All mammals named Sam are clammy”)
Rhyme Scheme - the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Personification - the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something
nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Alliteration – Repetition of the first letter of each word of a sentence (Sally Sells Sea Shells
down by the Sea Shore).