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Figurative Devices
Sound devices - used to emphasize certain sounds in writing
alliteration - the repetition of initial consonant sounds
assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words
consonance - repetition of middle or final consonant sounds in neighboring words
meter - regular pattern of stressed and ustressed syllables; gives poems a pattern
free verse - poetry with no fixed pattern of meter or rhyme
blank verse - poetry written in iambic pentameter
Figurative devices - expresses truth beyond the literal level
simile - direct comparison between unlike things using "like" or "as"
metaphor - comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"