SYMBOL
METAPHOR
SIMILE
PERSONIFICATION
PARADOX
HYPERBOLE
TONE
ALLEGORY
ALLUSION
ALLITERATION
CONSONANCE
ASSONANCE
RHYME
RHYTHM
IRONY
DICTION
IMAGERY
SPEAKER-- (def. below) •
speaker - the created narrative voice of the poem (i.e. the person the reader is supposed to imagine is talking).
The speaker is NOT necessarily the poet. The poet often invents a speaker for the poem in order to give him/hererself more freedom to compose the poem.
For the definitions, you may use the literary terms handbook (at back of text), or this site:
Poetry Literary Terms
