Onomatopoeia

onomatopoeia: onomatopoeia in language, the representation of a sound by an imitation thereof; e.g., the cat mews.  Poets often convey the meaning of a verse through its very sound. For example, in "Song of the Lotus-Eaters" Tennyson indicates the slow, sensuous, and langorous life of the Lotus-Eaters by the sound of the words he uses to describe the land in which they live

Example: In a comic book there a lot of  "boom ,pow"

Personification

Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

Example The phone is dumb.

Imagery

Imagery: The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: the dim imagery of a dream.

Example: I slide across the floor like a boling ball.

Simile

Simile A two unliking comparisons using "Like or As".

Example: A bird is as big as a building.

Repetition

Repetition: A formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.

Tone

Tone: Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.

Interpretation

Interpretation: The act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.

Metaphor & Extended Metaphor

Metaphor: Compare simile  a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action that it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance.

Extended Metaphor: A metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas.

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Speaker

Speaker: In the poem the writer is not the speaker it could be the person who is reading it or someone the writer knows or saw. for example in the poem O' captin my captin.

Symbol

Symbol: Smething used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.

Example: something that represents a theme

Couplet

Couplet: A pair of successive lines of verse, especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length

Example: A line that rymes and has the same lenth.  

Stanza

Stanza:  An arrengment of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

Example: Respect is a lesson that everyone should learn
Respect must be given before an expected return
Respect is something that’s given for free