Have you ever thought negatively when your down in the dumps? Your telling yourself your not good enough? Well there is a poem that has you thinking of that. In “Listen To The Voice in Your Head” by Arnold Adoff, Adoff uses sound devices, figurative language and diction to show what you would think to yourself when being negative. The sound device, repetition, is strong in this poem with using the words “you will” (starting at line 1 and then continues). Repetition is the action of repeating something that has already been said or written. When using the words “you will” it follows up with something good that you would never have or something negative that you would have. “You will never be tall / you will never be thin” (1-2). Shows something