Poetic Devices:
Tone: A poem's tone, conveyed by the speaker, is the attitude toward its theme or subject matter. Tone can shift throughout a poem. Ex. A hopeful tone that becomes hopeless by poem’s end.
Mood: The mood, conveyed by imagery, is the feeling or atmosphere of a piece. The mood can be many different things. Some examples included: a feeling of love, a feeling of doom, a feeling of fear, a feeling of pride, an atmosphere of chaos, an atmosphere of peace.
Metaphor: A metaphor takes two things and claims they are the same, without using “like” or “as.”
Simile: A simile takes two things and claims they are the same using “like” or “as.”
Imagery: Details that appeal to our five senses: hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste.
Personification: Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects: The summer wind’s bitter hot breath gave no relief to the tired workers.
Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines within a poem; the blank line between stanzas is known as a stanza break. There is not set number of lines for a stanza.
Repetition: A word or phrase is repeated for emphasis, oftentimes to develop a theme, mood, or tone.
Keep in mind other terms: symbolism, theme, assonance, consonance, alliteration, word choice, connotation, patterns
