Poetic Devices

Poetic devices are used to make poetry better. It makes

the writing clearer and more descriptive. 

Alliteration happens when words that start with the same sound (not just the same letter) are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence. The sound is a consonant and the words don't have to be right next to one another.

 A simile  is a type of figurative language that describes something by comparing it to something else with the words like or as.

Hyperbole, from a Greek word meaning “excess,” is a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis.

Onomatopoeia is when a word describes a sound and actually mimics the sound of the object or action it refers to when it is spoken.

A transferred epithet is a figure of speech in which a modifier. It qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing. In other words, the modifier or epithet is transferred from the noun it is meant to describe to another noun in the sentence.