Characteristics+of+Poetry

 __**Sound Devices**__ enhance a poem's mood and meaning.
 * Characteristics of Poetry **
 * __Figurative Language__** is writing or speech not meant to be taken literally. Poets use figures of speech to state ideas in new ways.
 * **Metaphors:** describe one thing as if it were something else. //The house was a zoo this morning!//
 * **Personification:** gives human qualities to something that is not human. //The cars growled in the traffic.//
 * **Similes:** use // like // or //as// to compare two apparently unlike things. //He stormed into the meeting like a tornado.//
 * **Symbol**//:// is anything that represents something else. For example, //a dove is a common symbol for peace.//
 * **Alliteration** is the repetition of constant sounds in the beginning of words, as in //slippery slope//.
 * **Repetition** is the use of any element of language: sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence more than once.
 * **Rhyme** is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words, as in //speech// and //teach//.
 * **Meter** is the rhythmical pattern in a poem.
 * **Assonance** is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables, as in // blade // and // maze .//
 * **Consonance** is the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables, as in //wind// and //sand.//
 * **Onomatopoeia** is the use of words that imitate sounds. //Crash//, // bang, // and // hiss // are all examples of onomatopoeia.