all popular poetic devices with explanation
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We can divide into two parts -
First - Figurative language - It affects the meaning of the poem.
Hyperbole- A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration.
Example - I'll never get this fishing line untangled in a million years!
Imagery- The mental impression summoned up by a word, phrase or sentence. It suggests to the reader what to think and feel.
Metaphor- A figure of speech that compares two or more things with similar quality and does not use “like” or “as”. One thing is said to be another.
Example - Life is a banana cream pie.
Time is money.
Oxymoron- A device where seemingly opposite words are placed together for effect.
Example - Ms. Smith always tries to “act naturally,” especially when her students are being “seriously funny.”
Personification- When an inanimate object or abstract image is given human qualities or abilities.
Example - The leaves “danced” in the wind. The tree “screamed” under the saw blade. It was a “strutting” sort of blue.
Simile- A figure of speech that compares two things by using “like” or “as.”
Example - He was as excited as a kid at Christmas. He looked like a Jack-in-the-box the way he kept jumping up.
Pun- A play on words
Example - Kings worry about a receding heir line.
Second - Auditory devices - It affects the sound of the poem.
Alliteration- The repetition of initial sounds in words within a line or verse of poetry.
Example- Ms. Smith's English class causes her confusion.
Assonance- Repetition of the same vowel sound in a line of poetry. It is often used to slow the pace of poetry.
Example - She lived in the hills.
Onomatopoeia- The use of words that suggest their meaning when pronounced.
Example- The bees “buzz” the clock “tick-tocks” the snake “hisses”
Refrain- A line or group of lines that are repeated in the course of a poem (usually at the end of each stanza)
Rhyme- Two words taht end with identical sounds (rhyme depends on sound, not spelling)
Example - Crime/rhyme/slime/time
Stanza- A group of lines which form a division of a poem
Couplet- A stanza of two lines
Quatrain- A stanza of four lines