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1. Poetic devices
• Literary devices used in poetry.
• Tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, rhyme, enhance its
meaning and create dramatic effect.
• Tone: contentment, nostalgia.
1. Metaphor
• Metaphor: stating one thing as
another. ‘A’ is ‘B’.
• Example: Bob is a couch potato.
• Example in poem: “with
enchantress hands.”

2. • Repetition: repetition of
certain words or
phrases that resonate.
• Example: “little”(1:3)
2. Repetition
3. Alliteration
• Alliteration: repetition of the
same consonant sound at the
beginning of words that are
close.
• Example-
• Observe that the starting sound
of the words are similar.

3. 4. Consonance
• Repetition of identical
consonant sound like
alliteration but there is a
difference.
• Here repetition occurs in the
middle or at the end of the
words.
5. Assonance
• Repetition of identical vowel sound in
a sentence.

4. 6. Hyperbole
• Used for emphasizing
something through
exaggeration. Although it is
not really true.
• Done to emphasis a feeling or
emotion.

5. 8. Imagery
9. Rhyme scheme
Free verse: no regular rhythm. Neither
regular rhyme scheme nor fixed number of
lines in stanzas.

6. 10. Transferred epithet
• Was it the match that was
careless or the players who
played carelessly?
• Is it the eye that is scornful or
is it a person who is scornful?
Examples:
A careless match
A scornful eye
• Epithet means modifier. Adjectives
and adverbs are modifier. Therefore,
transferred epithet is a modifier
which is transferred.
• Transferred where?
The description is transferred from the
noun it is meant to describe to another
noun in the sentence.
• I had a sleepless night.
It wasn’t the night that couldn’t sleep
but it was “I” who couldn’t sleep. Plainly
speaking:
I was sleepless last night.
• I had a wonderful day. Who had wonderful
time? I, but tha modifier(wonderful) is
placed in front of another noun—day.
• They are in an unhappy marriage. Who is
unhappy in the marriage? They, but the
modifier(unhappy) is placed with the
another noun in the sentence—marriage.
• Why speak in such a way?
It is one of the figure of speech like
simile and metaphor. Use of figurative
language.

7. 11.ambiguity
• A sentence which have 2
different meanings
• Examples; The bark was
painful. (Could mean a tree's
bark was rough or a dog's bark
communicated pain or hurt the
listener's ears).
12.Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from what
kind of sound that thing produce
Example-
Machine noises—honk, beep,
vroom, clang, zap, boing. Animal -.
quack (duck), moo (cow)

8. Personification
• animals, plants or even
inanimate objects, are given
human qualities – resulting in a
poem full of imagery and
description.
• Example- Lightning danced
across the sky, The wind howled
in the night.
Refrain
line or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of the poem
itself. they are of 3 kind-
• the repented – where particular words are repeated throughout the
poem;
• the chorus – usually read by more than one person '_in unison_',
and sometimes can be considered the theme of the poem;
• the burden – the most common form of refrain, in which a whole
word or phrase is repeated a regular intervals.

9. Rhythm
• The variation of strong and
weak elements (such as
duration, accent) of sounds,
notably in speech or music,
over time
pair of lines in a poem which
have both the same rhythm
(meter) and that rhyme. The
lines can be independent
sentences (closed form) or
can run on from each other
(open form).
Couplets

10. Kenning
• A Kenning names something
by describing it's qualities in a
two word compound
expression (often consisting of
a noun and a verb made into a
noun using an -er ending)
= cat
The sentence have different meanings as
compare to the what is written
• convey a meaning opposite to what's being
literally said.
• situation or event contradicts expectations,
usually in a humorous fashion.
• the audience of a play, movie, or other piece of
art is aware of something that the characters
are not.
Irony

11. Oxymoron
• A combination of two words that
appear to contradict each other
(opposite of each other ).
Drawing a comparison or inference between
two situations to convey the poet's message
more effectively
Analogy

12. Pun
• A play on word in which words
with totally different meanings
have similar or identical
sounds.
• metrical pause or break in
a verse where one phrase
ends and another phrase
begins.
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