Language features of a poem

Metaphor

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Simile

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).

Personification

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Alliteration

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Assonance

resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (e.g. sonnet, porridge ), but also from the use of identical consonants with different vowels (e.g. killed, co

Onomatopoeia

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).

Rhyme

correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

Rhythm

a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Name the language features of a poem

Rhythm, Rhyme, Onomatopoiea, Assonance, Alliteration, Personification, Simile, Metaphor