poetry techniques

• Imagery is the use of verbal descriptions to create mental pictures in the reader's mind.
• Metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two things without using "like" or "as".
• Simile is a comparison between two unlike things, usually introduced by "like" or "as".
• Personification gives human qualities to non-human objects or animals.
• Hyperbole exaggerates something beyond what actually happened.
• Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.
• Oxymoron combines contradictory terms like "bitter sweetness".
• Onomatopoeia creates sound effects with words.
• Enjambment


  poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next.