How to analyze a poem through...

Diction:

• Figures of speech:
• Simile: direct comparison (like, as)
• Metaphor: indirect comparison
• Personnification: bringing life or giving human qualities to something
• Apostrophe: addressing someone directly
• Hyperbole: exageration
• Oxymoron: opposite ideas "the sounds of silence"
• Euphony vs cacophony
• Onomatopeia: sounds that imitate meaning "the buzzing of the bees"
• Connotation vs denotation: literal meaning vs suggestive meaning
• Concrete vs abstractions
• Level of language: formal "child", informal "kid", slang "squirt".
  
  
• Rhymes:
• Alliterary: repetition of consonant sounds
• Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds
• Consonance
  
• Imagery: 5 senses (sounds, visuals, touch, taste, smell)
  
• Symbolism
  
• Irony
  
• Pun: fun use of language "A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired"