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What Is An Poetic Device

 Poetic devices are tools that a poet can use to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. These devices help piece the poem together, much like a hammer and nails join planks of wood together.

Ten Types Of Poetic Devices:-

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Metaphor

Irony

Imagery

Hyperbole

Symbol

Repetition

Personification

Simile

AlliterationThe repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.EX = I suppose, off some sweet wood.         

MetaphorA comparison between essentially 

unlike things without word such as like or as.

EX = “Shall I Compare Thee to a summer’s Day”

Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words  

Ex = “Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.”

ImageryIt is the representation through language of sense experience. The image most often suggests a mental picture, but an image may also represent a sound, smell, taste or tactile experience. 

Example = The gushing brook stole its way down the lush green mountains, dotted with tiny flowers in a riot of colors and trees coming alive with gaily chirping birds.

It is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to evoke strong feelings, paint a stronger image or to better illustrate a theme.

HYPERBOLE

“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”

Ex=“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”

“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”

The wait of ten days seemed to last forever and never end.

symbol A symbol has two levels of meaning, a literal level and a figurative level. Characters, objects, events and settings can all be symbolic in that they represent something else beyond themselves.

Example = All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;they have their exits and their entrances;

Example = A horse is a horse, of course, of course,And no one can talk to a horse of course

RepetitionAn instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage--dwelling on a point.

Example = you can take every thing i have you can break every thing i am like i'm made of glass

SimileA simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. Unlike a metaphor, a simile draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as”. Therefore, it is a direct comparison.

PersonificationPersonification is a figure of speech in

which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings Example= “Have you got a brook in your little heart,Where bashful flowers blow,And bird blushing s go down to drink,And shadows tremble so?”